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Behind the deal: Who's building massive Hill Country Studios filmmaking hub in San Marcos and what's next?

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Behind the deal: Who's building massive Hill Country Studios filmmaking hub in San Marcos and what's next?

With incentives secured, the folks behind Hill Country Studios are moving ahead with the plan to build a huge movie production space — 820,000 square feet in all — in San Marcos, west of I-35. In this exclusive story, one of the group’s co-founders details how it went from an idea between friends during the pandemic to the cusp of reality. Construction work is slated to start in 2023 and wrap up in 2025.