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Inventory of National Registry of Historic Places
The City has an extensive collection of historic buildings concentrated Downtown.
Source: Nomination Form, City of Cuero

leakage typically indicates a situation where some local local economic development programs. Over-supplied
purchasing power is being siphoned off by retailers destination businesses, on the other hand, may provide
in other nearby communities. This can help reveal clues to further build-up or build-off of local specialty
opportunities to capture that spending locally by markets or retail “clusters” that are already drawing
recruiting retailers that can service the under-served from outside the community. An analysis of retail
local market. expenditures of Cuero residents reveals that the area’s
highest comparative expenditures are in things like
A retail surplus, on the other hand, can be a mixed pets and pet supplies, recreational vehicles and fees,
bag. It can either mean that a community is over- prescription and non-prescription drugs; smoking
capacity in certain areas (where there are more stores products, and home maintenance and remodeling
than the host community can support and where the materials. The lowest comparative expenditures are
addition of new stores may cause store failures), or in footwear, catering services, alcoholic beverages,
more advantageously, where a local specialization in telephones and telephone accessories, airline tickets
non-everyday goods and services (such as craft goods, and luggage.
antiques, jewelry, furniture, cars, etc.) has developed,
drawing shoppers from around the region. The key is These figures may be a factor of the overall availability
determining whether the stores are convenience- or of certain goods and services as well as general
destination-based. consumer preferences. Data on area Internet sales for
Cuero (so called “e-tailing”), an increasing segment of
Over-supplied, convenience-based retail can be fraught the retail market, is not currently available.
with a high degree of risk and may be discouraged by

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