Oracle s move to Austin may spur California influx and higher prices Dec 16, 2020, 9:36 am Oracle will have one of the largest workforce s in Austin, though it remains unseen how many employees will move here. On December 11, Oracle, the world s largest data base company, announced it was moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin. The announcement, coupled with major expansions underway by Apple, Facebook, Tesla, and others, is a feather in the cap of local business boosters. But it also has ruffled feathers among local residents who fret about the seemingly unending rise in housing prices. Whether you’re a champion or a critic of the Oracle relocation, the ongoing influx of companies and executives from California shows no signs of letting up. In fact, some observers speculate that Facebook could follow Oracle in shifting its headquarters from the high-cost San Francisco Bay Area to lower-cost Austin. On December 4, the
Published: 12:37 PM EST December 16, 2020 Updated: 12:42 PM EST December 16, 2020
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. If your family is planning to travel for the holidays, you may want to think twice.
Doctors say there’s a lot of uncertainty right now with the pandemic, which is why they’re encouraging people to stay closer to home.
“I think a lot of people really need to decide what they feel is an acceptable risk for their family,” said Frank Esper, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Cleveland Clinic Children’s. “Not just whether or not to travel, but how to travel, where to travel and what happens when you come back. You have to think about who you have in the household that may be at risk.”
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LOS CABOS, Mexico, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Los Cabos brings 2020 to a close with nearly 80% recovery of all travel activity due to the destination s strong and swift response to control the spread of COVID-19. In March 2020, Los Cabos closed the destination for over two months to focus on the creation and implementation of health and safety measures that would allow a safe reopening for international travel. With support from local authorities, hotels, and tourism partners, Los Cabos Tourism Board implemented a successful phased approach to reopen the destination and created the
Since its reopening on June 15, 2020, Los Cabos has seen a strong recovery in international arrivals and is projecting to close the year with 1.4 million international visitors. In November, Los Cabos welcomed 103,000 international visitors, which is 64.3% of the visitation received the previous year, representing 50% in hotel occupancy.
Austin’s Project Connect Receives TOD Grant Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Project Connect’s new 15-mile light rail Blue Line will run from Austin’s North Lamar neighborhood and U.S. 183 through downtown and on to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
The $7.1 billion Project Connect bus and rail transit improvement initiative is moving forward in Austin, Tex. Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Capital Metro) has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for transit-oriented development (TOD) planning and anti-displacement efforts.
On the rail side, Project Connect includes three new light rail lines (21-mile Orange, 15-mile Blue and 9.5-mile Gold); two additional commuter rail stations along the MetroRail Red Line, which extends from downtown Austin to Leander; a new 27-mile MetroRail Green Line, which would connect neighborhoods east of central Austin to d