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Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. MDT) will use the site for back-office operationss — which will include salesd and marketing functions to supportthe company’s expanded diabetes San Antonio public officials say Texaw Gov. Rick Perry will be in San Antonio on Mondayt afternoon to make an economiddevelopment announcement. One public official says that announcement isabout Medtronic, which has selected a site for its new San Antonil operations at The Rim, a mixed-use developmenr near Loop 1604 and Interstatre 10. Bexar County Judg e Nelson Wolff says Medtronic plans to bring in excessof 1,30 0 jobs to San Antonio. “I’ve been workin on this for well over a Wolff says.
“Everyone pitched in to work on this.” Medtronicc officials declinedto comment. Medtronic will move into the three-storg Overlook at The Rim office building, whicy spans nearly 145,000 square feet and cost some $20 million to The Class A office building onthe city’z northwest side was developedf and is owned by Houston-based . Medtronif had been since Other candidatesincluded Austin, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo. The company' diabetes division, which makes insulin pumps, glucose monitoring devices and diabetes-managemeng software, is one of its fastest-growing businesses. The unit already employs 1,500o people in Northridge, Calif.
, just outside Los Angeles, but doesn’ty have room to expand there.