Since 2022, Mayor Kirk Watson has been wrestling with a challenge. The good challenge, as he calls it, of a booming city: how to tackle affordability and infrastructure.
As more people moved to Austin, he wondered, how can he make it so more families keep more money in their pockets?
As the growing city’s new infrastructure projects ballooned — spanning to $25 billion in projects with the renovation of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Interstate 35 expansion and Project Connect — a parallel goal emerged: to help Austinites “make a living making Austin.”
