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San Marcos, TX Construction Projects

What's being built in San Marcos — 1,422 projects on file from Texas public records

1422
Total Projects
$4.23B
Total Investment
589
New Construction
833
Renovations
39.2M
Total Sq Ft
$3.0M
Avg. Value

What is being built in San Marcos, Texas?

San Marcos, Texas has 1,422 construction and development projects on file worth $4.23B — 589 new construction and 833 renovations or remodels, 54 of them filed in the last six months. Each record is a real filing from Texas public construction records and names the project, its declared value and the date it was registered.

What new businesses are coming to San Marcos?

The most recently filed new-construction projects in San Marcos are 354 San Marcos Premium Outlets ($350K), Kissing Tree Phase 4A ($2.0M), Kissing Tree Phase 8C-2 ($2.0M), Tejas Equipment Rental Phase 3 ($483K). A new-construction filing is the earliest public signal that something new is being built, usually well before it opens, so this list leads street-level visibility rather than following it.

Austin Metro Economy

Driving San Marcos construction · FRED

Unemployment:3.9%↓
Construction Jobs:175K+1.1%
Median Home:$446K
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See the shape of development

Compare project scale, registration dates, and locations across 200 loaded TDLR filings from 1,422 registered projects. This is the loaded selection, not a measure of every project in the market.

San Marcos
Estimated construction value$773.3MSum of 200 shown records with value
Records in view200 / 200Ready to inspect and compare
Largest record’s share29.4%Share of reported value shown
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Comparisons use only these 200 records. Missing values are excluded from totals. Recorded value is not revenue or a quality rating.

Status Breakdown

Closed953
Review Complete273
Inspection Complete136
Registered60

By County

Hays1397Guadalupe9Caldwell6Bexar4Comal2Travis1El Paso1Gillespie1San Jacinto1

Top Property Owners

1
Texas State University
75 projects · $273.7M
2
City of San Marcos
55 projects · $110.3M
3
Carma Paso Robles, LLC
15 projects · $14.9M
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Top Design Firms

1
GKZ INC.
20 projects · $11.3M
2
POWERS BROWN ARCHITECTURE
13 projects · $17.2M
3
Perkins&Will
10 projects · $96.6M
4
HUCKABEE & ASSOCIATES INC.
10 projects · $33.4M
5
Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc.
10 projects · $6.3M
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Construction & Development in San Marcos, Texas

San Marcos is experiencing significant construction and development activity with 1422 registered projects valued at $4.23B. The city's development portfolio includes 589 new construction projects and 833 renovation projects, representing 39,243,397 square feet of built space across commercial, residential, and mixed-use developments.

Development Activity

  • 589 new construction projects (41%)
  • 833 renovation/remodel projects (59%)
  • Average project value: $3.0M
  • 54 new projects in last 6 months

Key Players

San Marcos's construction market features 3 major property owners and 5 active design firms driving development across the city.

Leading developers include Texas State University and City of San Marcos, working with architecture firms such as GKZ INC. and POWERS BROWN ARCHITECTURE.

Our database tracks all TDLR-registered construction projects in San Marcos. Projects span Hays and Bexar and Comal and Travis and El Paso and Caldwell and Gillespie and Guadalupe and San Jacinto counties, providing comprehensive coverage of commercial construction, residential development, and infrastructure improvements throughout San Marcos and the surrounding area.

54 New Projects
Registered in the last 6 months

All Projects

1422 TDLR · 0 Site Plans

Showing 20 of 200 listed TDLR filings

Registered
$307K

CMC Admin Offices

440 Wonder World Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666

6,000 sqftOct 15, 2026
Review Complete
$2.0M

Kissing Tree Phase 4A

south of the intersection at Blushing Aster Drive and W. Centerpoint Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666

1 sqftSep 16, 2026
Registered
$2.0M

Kissing Tree Phase 8C-2

Approx. 2150' west of Mountain Spray Dr/W Centerpo, San Marcos, TX 78666

1 sqftSep 2, 2026
Review Complete
$1.6M

FrameBridge

1825 Rattler Rd 1600 E. McCarty Ln, San Marcos, TX 78666

21,922 sqftAug 28, 2026
Review Complete
$185K

Sunglass Hut

3939 I-35 Suite#507, San Marcos, TX 78666

1,713 sqftAug 25, 2026
Review Complete
$283K

Sally Beauty

4015 I 35 S, San Marcos, TX 78666

2,837 sqftAug 19, 2026

Browse San Marcos by Neighborhood

6 neighborhoods with active construction

Downtown Association
95 projects
Victory Gardens
13 projects
Millview East
10 projects
Wayside
8 projects
Rio Vista
7 projects
Holland Street
3 projects

San Marcos construction questions

How many construction projects are there in San Marcos, Texas?
There are 1,422 registered construction projects in San Marcos, Texas with a total estimated value of $4.23B and 39,243,397 square feet of development. The average project is valued at $3.0M.
What kind of construction is happening in San Marcos?
San Marcos has 589 new construction projects (41%) and 833 renovation or remodel projects (59%) on file, together totaling 39,243,397 square feet. Work spans commercial, residential and mixed-use development.
Who is building in San Marcos?
The most active property owners on file in San Marcos are Texas State University, City of San Marcos, Carma Paso Robles, LLC. The architecture and design firms appearing most often on San Marcos filings are GKZ INC., POWERS BROWN ARCHITECTURE, Perkins&Will.
Where does this San Marcos construction data come from?
Every project on this page is a TDLR-registered construction filing from Texas public records, not an estimate or a listing. Each entry keeps the project name, declared value, owner and registration date exactly as filed, which is why a project can appear here months before any visible work starts on site.

Figures on this page are counted from the San Marcos filings themselves and change as new records are registered. How Zabalist sources Texas construction records.

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