CTXGF develops and executes collaborative projects designed to strengthen San Antonio's economic competitiveness, global image, and quality of life. Each initiative is structured around measurable outcomes, cross-sector alignment, and long-term community benefit.
CTXGF is developing a collaborative tourism and city beautification strategy designed to strengthen San Antonio's economic growth, global image, tourism competitiveness, and quality of life.
The initiative focuses on enhancing the city's visual identity, cultural character, visitor experiences, and nighttime economy while preserving San Antonio's historic heritage and authenticity. CTXGF works collaboratively with tourism leaders, cultural institutions, developers, hospitality groups, universities, and public-sector organizations to accelerate transformational projects and regional alignment.
A central objective of this strategy is not only to attract more visitors, but also to increase the level of spending per tourist by improving the quality, variety, duration, and value of the visitor experience. By creating more memorable attractions, stronger nighttime activities, premium cultural and gastronomic experiences, and better-connected tourism districts, San Antonio can increase hotel nights, restaurant activity, retail sales, entertainment revenue, convention spending, and overall economic impact.
Create a citywide initiative focused on making San Antonio one of the most visually attractive and memorable cities in America:
Objective: Bring the beauty of our city to its maximum potential — creating a visually unforgettable destination that attracts visitors, investment, talent, and future residents, while encouraging tourists to stay longer and spend more throughout the city.
Support the creation of iconic tourism experiences that increase national and international visibility and raise the economic value of each visitor:
Goals: Increase hotel occupancy · Strengthen convention attraction · Extend visitor stays · Increase tourism spending per visitor · Expand restaurant, retail, cultural, and entertainment value.
CTXGF serves as a collaborative platform helping align:
This alignment should focus on creating coordinated tourism strategies that improve the visitor experience, increase spending opportunities, and distribute tourism activity across more areas of the city.
Potential Partners: Visit San Antonio · Centro San Antonio · San Antonio Chamber of Commerce · Hispanic chambers · and many others
A long-term transformation and branding initiative positioning San Antonio as "One of America's Most Beautiful and Historic Cities" through:
Priority Areas: Downtown · River Walk · Airport corridors · Convention district · Historic districts · Shopping, dining & entertainment · Major highways and gateways
Create a fast-track collaboration platform that helps accelerate:
Focus: Quick-win visible projects · High-impact tourism zones · Nighttime economy activation
Long-Term Goals:
By improving the quality of the city experience, San Antonio can move beyond simply increasing the number of visitors and focus on increasing the economic impact of each visitor. This strategy supports a more competitive tourism economy by encouraging tourists to spend more time, participate in more activities, enjoy more premium experiences, and contribute more directly to local businesses and the broader regional economy.
“Transform San Antonio into one of the most attractive, vibrant, culturally authentic, and economically dynamic tourism cities in North America.”
CTXGF Long-Term Tourism Vision
The North American Manufacturing Gateway — San Antonio, Texas
The U.S.–Mexico Advanced Manufacturing I-35 South Corridor is a strategic economic-development initiative led by CTXGF to position San Antonio as a leading U.S. hub for advanced manufacturing, industrial expansion, logistics, innovation, and North American supply-chain growth.
The concept is simple and powerful: create a major advanced manufacturing platform starting in San Antonio, Texas, and extending south along the I-35 corridor to Laredo, Texas, Nuevo Laredo, and Mexico. This corridor connects three powerful economic engines:
San Antonio
The proposed U.S. advanced manufacturing hub and command center for the corridor.
Mexico
One of North America's strongest manufacturing and supplier bases.
Austin / Central Texas
A high-growth technology, semiconductor, innovation, and advanced manufacturing market.
Together, these markets create a unique opportunity to bring more industry back to the United States while maintaining strong supply-chain connectivity with Mexico and Central Texas.
The strategy is to attract U.S. companies currently operating factories in Mexico, as well as Mexican manufacturers seeking growth in the United States, to establish advanced manufacturing, assembly, logistics, innovation, compliance, and distribution infrastructure in San Antonio, Texas.
This approach supports the national priority of strengthening U.S. manufacturing, reducing dependence on overseas production, creating high-quality jobs, and building a more resilient North American industrial platform.
The corridor views Mexico as a strategic production and supplier partner. By combining Mexico's manufacturing strength with U.S.-based advanced manufacturing capacity in San Antonio, the corridor creates a practical model for North American industrial growth.
Global supply chains are changing. Tariffs, trade uncertainty, logistics costs, geopolitical risk, and customer demand are pushing companies to bring production closer to the U.S. market. This corridor offers a tariff-resilient and USMCA-ready strategy — creating the best of both worlds:
Develop a mega advanced manufacturing industrial platform in San Antonio with expansion capacity along the I-35 South corridor.
Attract U.S., Mexican, Austin/Central Texas, and international manufacturers that need a strategic U.S. location connected to Mexico and the American market.
Prepare shovel-ready industrial sites with power, water, wastewater, broadband, logistics access, permitting clarity, and expansion capacity.
Create a Mexico-to-San Antonio soft-landing program to help manufacturers establish operations in the United States.
Build a public-private execution platform connecting business leaders, universities, industrial developers, utilities, logistics companies, investors, workforce partners, and government entities.
The corridor will focus on high-value industries with strong regional potential:
San Antonio is strategically positioned between the Mexican border, Austin, Central Texas, and the broader U.S. market. The city offers workforce capacity, available land, universities, military and cybersecurity assets, aerospace and defense connections, competitive operating costs, quality of life, and direct access to one of the most important U.S.–Mexico trade corridors in North America. Its location provides strong connectivity to major distribution highways, airports, rail infrastructure, and regional access to Texas and Gulf Coast seaports, making San Antonio a powerful platform for advanced manufacturing, logistics, assembly, and cross-border industrial growth.
This corridor allows San Antonio to compete not only as a city, but as the center of a larger industrial region connecting South Texas, Central Texas, Mexico, and the United States.
The U.S.–Mexico Advanced Manufacturing I-35 South Corridor invites manufacturers, industrial developers, public-sector leaders, universities, logistics companies, utilities, investors, and Mexico-connected businesses to participate in building the next major manufacturing gateway between Mexico and the United States.
“San Antonio to Laredo. Mexico to the United States. Austin to South Texas. The future of North American manufacturing starts here.”