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H-E-B LP has submitted initial plans for the 170,000-square-foot tech center it is planning for its San Antonio headquarters to the San Antonio Historic and Design Review Commission for approval at the commission’s Jan. 15 meeting.

#5. San Antonio, Texas
Also ranking quite high on the Emerging Trends Report, San Antonio has garnered quite a bit of attention from institutional investors who are looking for opportunities in this very affordable market. The metro is seeing activity in shared office locations, urban residential, historic redevelopments, and top-tier distribution.

HomeVesters recently released a report with findings that San Antonio is one of the nation's most fruitful markets for real estate investors.

The contradictions abound. Americans want a fuller life, but they don’t want to live where the amenities, the libraries and theaters and bookstores and where the other people are, which is in the city. They are worried about their health but don’t want to be where the hospitals and the doctors and the specialists are. They want peace of mind, but they still want 2,000 square feet of house in the middle of a lawn that has to be mowed, on a cul-de-sac where they can’t get transit. Basically they want what they have now, but on one floor.

Apparently saving accounts are also bigger in Texas. GoBankingRates.com, which ranked the 100 largest U.S. cities from best to worst on seven factors affecting a person’s ability to save, put five Texas towns on their list of the 15 thriftiest places.