{"id":410458,"date":"2026-08-19T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410458\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:40:10","slug":"bexar-county-passes-tax-break-for-san-antonio-based-h-e-bs-regional-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410458\/","title":{"rendered":"Bexar County passes tax break for San Antonio-based H-E-B’s regional center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bexar County commissioners on Tuesday approved a tax break for San Antonio-based grocery giant H-E-B to expand its East Side Super Regional Center and eventually add hundreds of good paying jobs. <\/p>\n

The ten-year, 85% tax break is worth $15 million. But that’s a more modest amount compared to the $700 million H-E-B plans to pump into its facility at Houston Street and Foster Road. It will create 720 new full-time jobs by 2028 and a total of 1,200 new jobs by 2038.<\/p>\n

It’s the latest in a series of tax breaks given to big companies operating in the county and all promising good-paying jobs.<\/p>\n

Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai said taxpayers will see a big return on those tax breaks.<\/p>\n

“What we’ve seen, especially with our big industrial manufacturers, Toyota, JCB, and the ones to come, H-E-B, they truly give back.”<\/p>\n

The average first-year wage at the H-E-B facility will range from a little more than $18 an hour to $30 dollars an hour, depending on the position.<\/p>\n

H-E-B plans to add a new bakery, fresh plant, and logistics hub to create the Super Regional Center.<\/p>\n

In June, commissioners approved a big tax break for Toyota in return for a potential $2 billion investment and 2,000 new jobs at its South Side facility.<\/p>\n

The 100% tax break would save Toyota $55 million in county taxes over 10 years. A job skills development grant to Toyota worth $250,000 was also approved by commissioners.<\/p>\n

The plant will welcome back production of Tacoma pickups at the expanded facility. It also added a rear axle plant at its manufacturing complex off Applewhite Road.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, UK-based JCB manufacturing plans to open a new South Side facility by 2028. It will hire up to 1,500 workers. <\/p>\n

When completed, JCB’s $500 million plant will span 1 million square feet. The company is expected to have an economic impact of $10 billion over 10 years, according to county officials.<\/p>\n

The chair of the privately-owned UK-based company visited the site on March 30, 2026<\/p>\n

In March, county commissioners approved nearly $12 million in incentives to lure the global maker of agricultural, industrial, and construction equipment here.<\/p>\n

The incentives include a grant of $250,000 for 250 jobs that each pay more than $58,000 annually. That’s $1,000 for each one created and filled within the first two years of operation, according to county documents.<\/p>\n

The biggest incentives are a 10-year, 100% tax break on real and personal property investments, a value of nearly $6.5 million and another $5 million for improvements to public infrastructure, like the roads surrounding the plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-410458","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\/410458","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=410458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}