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2024- San Antonio Express News, Megaacrete picks Kerrville
The new company, a joint venture of Florida-based companies Litecrete and Aercon, says it will invest $40 million to build its new offices and hire 40 people as it aims to begin operations near Kerrville-Kerr County Airport by late 2025.
2021 - Flying Magazine- Kerrville Airport Sees new Growth with Business Aerospace Cluster
“This sector is growing incredibly fast, as leading aviation companies see numerous cost and workforce benefits, as well as our supply-chain network’s added value, to locating along this well-known corridor,” said Gil Salinas, executive director of KEDC. “Some real synergies are starting to develop between the companies, and it’s just exciting to help foster the growth of our aerospace cluster, which is aligned with the community’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan.”
2020 - Governor Abbott Announces New Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing Facility in Kerrville
Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Inc. (KMM) will establish a new manufacturing facility in Kerrville. KMM produces circuit card assemblies and cable and fiber harnesses for the aerospace industry. The new facility will create 200 new jobs and generate more than $8 million in capital investment. A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant of $903,000 has been extended to Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Inc.
2016 - Rio Grande Guardian, Abbott appoints Brownsville leader to aerospace panel
On Monday, Abbott announced that Gilberto Salinas, executive vice president of the Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC), had been appointed to the Aerospace and Aviation
2014 - USA Today, Texas border town to become next Cape Canaveral
The recent announcement by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, that it plans to build a first-of-its kind, fully-private launch facility in Brownsville has rattled this border city and underscores the shifting story of space exploration from government-run missions to private-sector enterprise.
2014 - Site Selection Magazine, Off the Beaten Path
The city announced in early August that SpaceX had chosen a site on Boca Chica Beach to be the home of SpaceX's vertical rocket launch facility. The project is expected to create 300 jobs and pump $85 million in capital investment into the local economy.
2014 - Houston Chronicle , From Silicon Valley to space: a new frontier
''They're demanding," says Gilberto Salinas, a Brownsville economic developer who helped persuade SpaceX to build a spaceport on Boca Chica beach, in South Texas. "We've learned that just keeping up with them is a task."
2014 - NPR, SpaceX Could Give Struggling Texas City a Boost
The space company SpaceX has identified a remote spot on the southern tip of Texas as its finalist for construction of the world's newest commercial orbital launch site.
2013- DCI 40 Under 40 Award Winner Gilberto Salinas
Gilberto Salinas, 40, is the Executive Vice President for the Brownsville Economic Development Council in Brownsville, Texas. DCI is pleased to honor him as a winner of our 40 Under 40 awards, the first-ever competition to identify the economic development profession’s rising stars.
2011- Inbound Logistics, Ask the (M)experts 2011
Salinas develops marketing campaigns to promote Brownsville, and recruit and expand industry in the region. He also assists in making incentive packages and suitable industrial sites available to companies expanding in the area. In his role as legislative affairs liaison, he ensures the community and its public projects are represented at the Texas Capitol.
