Austin suburb's new retail & dining hub will be full of Asian concepts

A mixed-use development being built in Leander has a new commercial component largely focused on Asian and local businesses. Called the Market District, it will add 30,000 square feet of retail space to Northline, which will include retail and dining concepts.

Northline already has relationships with a number of South Korean businesses, starting with Samsung. The tech giant's $42 billion semiconductor plant is located in the neighboring town of Taylor, and a press release from Northline presents it as the "anchor for a broader wave of Korean investment across Williamson County."

Williamson County signed an international economic cooperation agreement with the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), the first of its kind in the county. The next year, it started a sister-city partnership with the South Korean city of Yongin, which is poised as a semiconductor hub.