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DeCoty Coffee Co. of San Angelo is pushing into new territory.

The national housing crisis may be trickling down to San Angelo.

The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs has awarded a $3.1 million low-income housing tax credits grant to the City's Community Development Department for the construction of 22 single-family homes in San Angelo's Blackshear neighborhood.

Retail entertainment outlet wants 40 acres.

For all the negotiations and secrecy involved over the past year in bringing Martifer Energy Systems to San Angelo, a key component remains unresolved.

Martifer Group, through Martifer Energy Systems, division for energy equipment, will start this month the construction of the tower factory in Texas, United States.

Over and over, spoken from the lectern and repeated among the crowd, the same seven words:

"It's a great day for San Angelo."

The Martifer Group, a Portugal-based global construction company, will build a $40 million wind-turbine tower manufacturing plant here, Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday.

Piecing together the largest incentives package in San Angelo history, the City Council and its economic development board offered more than $5.6 million in cash, tax rebates and waived fees to a European company looking to build its first North American wind-turbine manufacturing plant.

San Angelo is set to make a "very strong offer" to entice one of Europe's largest construction companies to build its first North American wind-turbine manufacturing plant here, officials said Saturday.