The $13 million project calls for installing pavement, fencing, lighting, a guard booth and employee parking at the Toyota Motor Texas Manufacturing campus. Work on the 1.5 million-square-foot project is expected to begin Sept. 1 and be finished by the end of March 2027, according to the filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Details in state filings are preliminary and subject to change without notice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first permit (of many!) for the first projects around the new expansion,\u201d a Toyota spokesperson wrote in an email.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said the space also will double as a staging ground for construction vehicles needed for the larger project to build a new vehicle assembly line and bring Tacoma production back to the South Side plant.<\/p>\n
The multibillion-dollar expansion announced earlier this month will double the footprint of the South Side manufacturing plant and add 2,000 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The plan calls for relocating production of the midsize pickup to San Antonio from Mexico over a four-year period. The Tacoma was produced at the South Side plant before it was moved to Baja California, Mexico,\u00a0earlier this decade<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Once complete, the expansion will add 150,000 Tacomas to its production lineup. Currently, Toyota annually produces a total of 200,000 full-size Tundra pickups and Sequoia SUVs.<\/p>\n The city also will provide an $8.3 million grant to train 1,650 new employees and $750,000 to re-skill 150 current workers. The 2,000 jobs created from the expansion are to be filled by the end of 2031, offering an average wage of $32.46 an hour.<\/p>\n County commissioners approved a $250,000 skills development grant based on Toyota creating 250 new jobs that pay more than $73,000 a year.<\/p>\n In addition to the city and county incentives, the automaker received more than $20 million from state-funded initiatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sarah Carabias-Rush<\/a>, president and CEO of Greater:SATX<\/a>, the regional economic development corporation, estimated that the expansion would create about 30,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n The start of the new construction comes as development of the $531 million rear-axle plant<\/a> is wrapping up. In November, the plant, which is adding 411 jobs<\/a>, will start production. When it is fully operational in 2027, it will produce a half million axles for the Tacoma, Sequoia and\u00a0Tundra each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $13 million project calls for installing pavement, fencing, lighting, a guard booth and employee parking at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-382592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}