Hill Country Studios has secured zoning and annexation approvals from the city of San Marcos, which means the project is on pace to break ground this year, with part of the study expected to open in 2024, according to the Austin Business Journal.
describes the project as an 800,000-square-foot studio facility that will sit on 200 acres of breathtaking Hill Country landscape.
Studio officials expect there to be 12 sound stages, four workshops and more than 200,000 square feet of production office space at the new location.According to a June 2022 report from the, Hill Country Studios is expected to employ at least 44 people with an average salary of $100,000. Officials estimated that the project would result in the employment of 1,400 contract workers with an average of 1,200 on production projects at an $80,000 average salary.
Protesters outside San Marcos City Hall on June 28, 2022 expressed concern and anger over a plan to allow an 820,000-square-foot film studio at 6202 West Centerpoint Road in the La Cima master-planned community. “As soon as I heard about this film studio going up, I was f***ing furious,” one protestor said last summer. “I cannot imagine anything happening to this beautiful town or its beautiful river.”Edwards Aquifer Recharge ZoneKSAT interviewed City of San Marcos Assistant City Manager Joe Pantalion last summer who said the city has a long history of protecting our river and aquifer.
“We have some of the strongest environmental regulations along the corridor,” Pantalion said. “The project’s better for the environment simply because of the amount of impervious cover associated with the film studio, which is 48% impervious cover versus the 80% impervious cover that would be involved with a commercial development at this site. The site is already entitled, and a commercial project is allowed to be constructed at this location.
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