{"id":448761,"date":"2026-09-26T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448761\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:58:08","slug":"san-antonio-named-one-of-oxford-economics-cities-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448761\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio named one of Oxford Economics’ Cities to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio has been named one of Oxford Economics’ “Cities to Watch” for 2026, making it one of just three U.S. cities recognized in the global ranking.<\/p>\n

According to Oxford Economics, the\u00a0list highlights cities<\/a> that are “generating significant steam and likely to climb our rankings in the coming years.”<\/p>\n

San Antonio received an overall score of 69.5 out of 100. The city scored highest in governance and environment and lowest in human capital.<\/p>\n

Boise, Idaho, and Jacksonville, Florida, were the other two U.S. cities named to the list.\u00a0Monterrey, Mexico, was also recognized.<\/p>\n

Among San Antonio’s major economic development projects this year is include Industrial Electric Manufacturing\u2019s\u00a0planned 1 million-square-foot manufacturing facility<\/a>\u00a0at Brooks on the South Side. The Silicon Valley-based company expects to create 3,000 jobs in the city by 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“IEM is excited to put down roots in San Antonio,” said CEO Clayton Such <\/a>\u00a0said in a statement. “The city’s skilled workforce, strong infrastructure and collaborative economic development environment made this a natural choice for our next phase of growth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio has been named one of Oxford Economics’ “Cities to Watch” for 2026, making it one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-448761","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\/448761","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=448761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}