By Andy Sevilla.
Kyle is well on its way to stamping its mark along the I-35 corridor and with continued growth and the addition of a community college; businesses are rolling in and setting up shop.
This year, 28 businesses have opened in Kyle as of Oct. 22, and 14 are either under construction, in the permitting process or having their plans reviewed by the city.
“New businesses are always a wonderful thing!” said Kyle Economic Development Director Diana Blank. “We are working to fill the gap in convenience and availability of services, amenities and goods, which in turn grow new tax revenues contributing to quality of place and a lessened burden on residents.”
Under Construction/Permitting/Plans |
1.Austin Community College Hays Campus 2.Bank of America 3.Bread Basket Convenience Store 4.Chicken Express 5.Firestone 6.Kyle Entertainment Center 7.Mitchell Motor Sports 8.New Haven Assisted Living 9.O’Reilly Auto Parts 10.E. Post Road Gas Station 11.RV Land 12.Safe-N-Sound Storage 13.The Strand 14.Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital 15.Walmart 16.Goforth Business Park
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Businesses Opened in 2013* (as of 10/22/13) |
7-Eleven Austin ENT Clinic Avis Budget Car Rental Centerfield Sports Bar & Grill Cilly Jordan Therapist CPL Lab Firehouse Subs Gillcrease Medical Group Hallmark Hays Surgery Center Howerton Eye Clinic John Hall- Professional office Kyle Family & Injury Chiropractic Kyle Orthodontics Kyle Vision Source Money and More Pawn Orchard Park of Kyle Oxygen Fitness Ross Salon at Creekside Specialty Concrete Coating of Texas Sylvan Learning Center Texas State Optical The Little Gym The Overlook at Plum Creek Tiara’s Retail & Event Boutique Water Works Auto Spa Wings to Go |
Among the newly opened businesses in Kyle there are restaurants, residential developments, retail, gyms, a car wash, a convenience store, car rental, professional offices and at least nine medical sector establishments among other commercial offerings.
Kyle Parkway at I-35 has been the city’s commercial Mecca with new businesses continuously popping up and filling the empty pad sites. Chicken Express, which boasts 169 locations in Texas and offers chicken, catfish, tea and desserts, among many other items, is presently under construction at the corner of Physicians Way and the I-35 access road. Bank of America is also under construction and will front FM 1626.
Sharron Burns and other contractors were hard at work Tuesday putting the final touches on the ACC Hays campus scheduled to open for the spring 2014 semester. (Photo by David White) |
The Austin Community College (ACC) at FM 1626 and Kohler’s Crossing will open soon and begin offering classes this spring. City officials have been largely vocal in anticipating much commercial growth near the college campus as students will begin to flood the already well traveled intersection.
Kyle council members have also directed city staff to continue discussions and negotiations with the Lone Star Rail District (LSTAR), which is proposing a nearly 120-mile rail that would connect south San Antonio north to Georgetown and could have a train stop station next to the new ACC campus.
To bring a station to Kyle, LSTAR is seeking 50 percent of Kyle’s property and sales tax growth within a half-mile radius of the station. Rail representatives have said the train stop would generate new tax growth that would have otherwise not made its way into Kyle.
Plum Creek developers have said that if council members approve moving forward with LSTAR, they would ask the city to rezone their property surrounding the proposed station to better fit the growth commuter rail could attract. Presently the property is zoned light industrial.
