Kathy Keane

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  It was the icing on the cake for Kathy Keane, who retired as director of the San Angelo Development Corporation on Friday and stood by as months of work came to fruition at the groundbreaking of the Martifer plant. Keane played a major role in enticing Martifer to San Angelo, and she said the two companies are a powerhouse together.
  
  She said that in the long run the partnership will help advance the renewable energy market and create vast opportunities for San Angelo.
  
  "The stars aligned on this one. The right place and the right time," she said.

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  "It's right at the beginning of discussions," said COSADC Executive Director Kathy Keane."My impression (is) if we can get the fields ready in time, it's a pretty high probability."
  
  During Tuesday's City Council meeting, District 6 Councilwoman Charlotte Farmer, who has been active in advocating for more recreation centers throughout the city, said the tournament's organizers had wanted to play in San Angelo 10 years ago, but that the city did not have adequate facilities at the time.
  
  The tournament tends to locate in a city for large blocks of time - as long as a decade, Keane said.
  
  "It's a long-term deal, if we can get it," she said.

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  The City of San Angelo Development Corp. gave Verizon a $250,000 incentive grant to hire 166 full-time employees by August 2005 and keep those employees for three years, said Kathy Keane, business liaison for COSADC.She said the company held up its end of the deal, which required employees to be paid at least $8.25 an hour.
  
  COSADC has since redesigned its program so that incentive jobs' pay scale is at 110 percent of the average Tom Green County wages, or about $33,000 yearly.
  
  "Our whole goal is to create wealth in the community," Keane said.

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  "We tried to phase out these projects like we thought they'd roll out," said Kathy Keane, the board's business relations officer.

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  Kathy Keane is proud of several feats in San Angelo, including a homebuying aid program.
  
  Kathy Keane is proud of several feats in San Angelo, including a homebuying aid program.
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  Kathy Keane is one of them; she has always wanted to live in a smaller town. The prospect of bringing a lasting impact to a small community sold her on the idea of relocating to Eden, 45 miles southeast of San Angelo.
  
  "I have no connections to Eden other than it being a gateway I've gone through to get to other places in Texas," said Keane, executive director for the San Angelo Development Corp. "I never dreamed that this opportunity would have presented itself."
  
  Keane announced her retirement last week after working 31 years with the city of San Angelo. She began working for the city filling various roles in the finance department, where she stayed for about 20 years. Afterward, she moved to the city clerk's office and worked there seven years before she went into the economic-development sector, where she spent the past four years.
  
  "It's the passion I have for the community," Keane said of why she has devoted her career to the city of San Angelo.
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  Keane had a role in a plethora of San Angelo accomplishments during her stint with the SADC. She was a strong advocate for the half-cent sales tax, which she said had residents feeling skeptical for a few elections before it passed. As director, she oversaw the spending for the tax and has received recognition for how it has been distributed.
  
  She also had a hand in the building of two livestock facilities at the San Angelo Fairgrounds, renovations to the McNease Convention Center, constructing the Rio Concho Sports Complex & Community Park, and bringing and maintaining businesses in San Angelo.
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  Keane said attracting Martifer, a wind turbine tower manufacturer, to San Angelo was a citywide effort to appeal to the European company.
  
  "I think Pat and I were intimately involved in that, but I cannot say how much the community came together to bring that here," she said. "Every segment of the community was involved. I think they will tell you it was that personal touch that sold them on San Angelo."
  
  Keane stressed how important it is for new businesses to come to town, but also stressed the importance of maintaining the current companies.
  
  "The opportunity to get a large manufacturer is pretty slim, with the exception of Martifer," she said. "Eighty percent of the city's growth is going to come from local businesses. We're not so dependent on recruiting as we are maintaining."
  
  Throughout the rest of this month, Keane will be busy tying up loose ends. One big project she is working on is a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs.
  
  She has been working alongside Dave Erickson, director of Angelo State Small Business Development Center; and Donna Osborne, executive director of Concho Valley Center for Entrepreneurial Development, to give people who are starting a business a central location to access economic development partners and resources.
  
  Keane has been "a great source of sending clients to us" at the SBDC, Erickson said.
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  Keane said one of the biggest rewards of working with the SADC was having a hand in a housing program that educated future homebuyers on the market and helped them buy houses.
  
  "I think the thing that really touches my heart personally is I have been able to work with housing communities and see things revitalized with the city helping," she said.

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  "The bridge is the key," said Kathy Keane, executive director of the City of San Angelo Development Corp.

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  The city continues to plan for Martifer's arrival, said city business relations officer Kathy Keane, adding that she hopes to receive word about the company's decision shortly.

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  Kathy Keane, Development Liaison

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  Kathy Keane, Business Liaison, City of San Angelo, P O Box 1751, San Angelo, TX 76902; (325) 653-7197; Fax (325) 653-7187; kathy.keane@sanangelotexas.us

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  Instead, the Upper Colorado River Authority, which is organizing the dredging work, has said dredging can take place with barges and pumps, said Kathy Keane, executive director of the San Angelo Development Corp., which administers the sales-tax money that will fund the project.
  
  "That's really a good thing," Keane said, "because you don't have to worry about the trees."
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  "We're going to have a tribute to him and rededicate the convention center as the McNease Convention Center," said Keane, who worked with McNease during his time as a member of the City of San Angelo Development Corp.

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