SAN MARCOS (KUSI) – It’s the start of the new year and the City of San Marcos has many initiatives on the horizon.
San Marcos Mayor, Rebecca Jones, joined Good Morning San Diego to discuss what residents can expect in 2021.
The 206 bed Kaiser Permanente Hospital is well underway, slated to open in early 2023, serving north county’s 180,000 members and bringing 500 new jobs to San Marcos
The San Marcos Creek Infrastructure project is moving along with completion in the first half of 2022
The Discovery Road extension from Craven Road to Twin Oaks Valley Road will be starting construction
Area-of-the-Arts will be making progress, a project that will one day transform nine acres of vacant land at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Linda Vista Drive into a thriving village anchored by arts, makers, craft brewers and distillers and an interactive park. The project is from LAB Holdings, the developers of the Anaheim Packing District and the LAB Anti-Mall in Costa Mesa.
Monday, December 28, 2020
Editor’s note: This story is the second installment of a four-part series looking back at the year that was 2020.
In the months of April-June, San Marcos saw a tragedy with the killing of San Marcos Police Department Officer Justin Putnam. San Marcans also participated in civil-rights protests seeking justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. As the summer began in 2020, COVID-19 cases began to spike.
April
On April 1, the Daily Record reported that Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra announced the county would receive 2,000 COVID-19 tests through an agreement with Reliant Immune Diagnostic’s telemedicine application MDBox. The tests, however, would become a source of contention and never became available to the county. The CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System completed its acquisition of Central Texas Medical Center on April 1. The hospital was also renamed to CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - San Marcos. To combat the economic hardship caused by the C
San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter exceeds Dec. adoption goal, still needs foster homes
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SAN MARCOS, Texas - The San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter (SMRAS) says it has exceeded its December goal of 120 new adoptions but says that it still needs foster homes due to limited staffing and volunteers at the shelter.
SMRAS says it placed a total of 131 pets into their forever homes during its Holiday Adoption Special. The pets were either at the shelter or in foster care and were already spayed or neutered and were able to go home with their new family the same day.
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EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Amber Infrastructure Group ( Amber ), the international infrastructure specialist, and its U.S. parent, Hunt Companies Inc. ( Hunt ), are pleased to have executed a pre-development agreement (PDA) with the City of Annapolis, Maryland for the redevelopment of the Hillman Parking Garage and the City Dock resiliency infrastructure.
Hunt and Amber are leading a consortium, Annapolis Mobility and Resilience Partners (AMRP), which was selected through a competitive procurement process.
The project, which will re-develop the existing Hillman Garage and implement resiliency solutions for the City Dock in downtown Annapolis, will be developed as a progressive public-private partnership. By utilizing Progressive Development procurement method, the City is able to optimize the design and delivery schedule while significantly reducing the delivery risk and procurement timeline. Progressive Development is a