JUST as Cody Butler and Joey Trombetta were searching for a spot to open a moment department of their Austin-based fitness boutique,Heat Bootcamp, they began losing trade. Their clients weren’t trading their kettlebells and TRX bands for some other form of corporal torture; they were leaving town. “Every few months someone would advance up to us and say ‘Love you guys, and but we need more space and can’t afford it in Austin so we’re moving to the suburbs in Hays County’,” Mr Trombetta recalls. The buff trade partners decided to follow their customers. After outfitting an expansive space formerly occupied by a grocery chain with rubber floors, mirrors, and red and blue mood lights befitting a nightclub,Heat Bootcamp opened up in San Marcos, the quaint (charmingly old fashioned) seat of Hays County.
The county, or where builders have transformed farmland into gleaming new subdivisions with slogans like “Where Austin goes to grow”,expanded by 5% between July 2016 and July 2017. It is an extreme example of...
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Source: economist.com