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Executive Summary

Technical Report

Fort Sam Houston will experience several additions and renovations with an approximate cost of $1.4 billion through the year 2011. Construction expenditures for four military posts in San Antonio are estimated to reach $2.08 billion. The amount of $1.4 billion allocated to Fort Sam Houston represents 66.7 percent of the total.

The number of new jobs moving to Fort Sam Houston due to BRAC 2005 is close to 11,449. However, only 4,099 are new jobs moving to San Antonio, the rest correspond to new students (5,120) attending medical school or to transfers from other local installations (2,230), like those transferred from Lackland or from Brooks City-Base. Of the 4,099 new jobs coming to San Antonio, close to 2,500 are civilian workers and close to 1,600 are military. They are accompanied by approximately 5,804 family members, of whom 2,252 are school-aged children and 3,552 are adults.

To understand the impacts of the BRAC 2005, the study considered the following five activities: construction at military bases related to BRAC 2005 (from all military posts), construction of city infrastructure related to Fort Sam Houston’s realignment, construction of homes for newcomers to San Antonio, increased operations and expenditures due to new workers coming to San Antonio, and expenditures by new students coming to San Antonio.