With my own observation of this region around Austin (especially in between Austin and Corpus Christi), the area near the corridors of I-35 is exploding in commercial and housing construction. Tractors, pipes, construction crews are everywhere. People in these areas, the “insiders”, must know something about the monstrous NAFTA highway being planned. The Public was invited to attend an informational seminar sometime ago, published in the Austin newspapers, about massive infusion of funds to develop I-35 into four-football-field-wide-mega-super-huge highway to accommodate all possible imports from Asia. (Exaggerating, of course). I sunk a portion of my profits selling a house in San Diego into buying a $70.00 per square-ft brand new house just built by Centex. White Texas Bricks on 3 sides. What an incredible deal! In this town where the house is located, a signpost said population is around 6,000. Well, as soon as the census gets completed, I have a feeling the signpost should be adjusted to 106,000. Within the last three years, this town just “exploded” in size. Home Depot, Wal-Mart and HEB are competing with each other building the most massive commercial retail sites I have ever seen. Their buildings are all made out of bricks, too. Beautiful structures.
I think it is true that Texas is moving up, up, up and away to the big sky of PROGRESS.
