Picture downtown Austin with spruced-up parks, urban rail, more tree-lined and wider sidewalks and moderately priced housing. Those are some of the ideas described in a $1.6 million master plan that the City Council may consider today . The plan lays out a vision for transforming downtown that would cost as much as $350 million …
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Austin has nabbed more business from California, with a bio-pharmaceutical start up relocating to the city and a software developer announcing that it will open a regional office here. Xeris Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing injectable products to treat endocrine and metabolic diseases, announced that it would move its headquarters to Austin from Larkspur, Calif. …
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The Austin metropolitan area added 11,400 jobs, or 1.5% in the 12 months ending in February according to Friday’s release of preliminary payroll jobs numbers by the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Similar to what we saw with last month’s data, this is somewhat more moderate year-over-year growth rate than …
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