Where are they now: Evans enjoying life as city manager in Texas

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Jump on an eastbound Amtrak train in Maricopa, transfer in San Antonio, disembark in McGregor, Texas, and you can walk two blocks to Kevin Evans’ office.

Evans was the Maricopa city manager for three years, from January 2008 through January 2011. A dry-talking Texan who really wanted to go back to his home state, he has been the city manager for McGregor for four years.

In a town of 5,000 that is home to the test sites for SpaceX, Evans’ focus has been economic development.

He is busy filling a 9,000-acre industrial park. It was an old naval weapons industrial reserve plant given to McGregor in 2003. McGregor is also the Amtrak stop for Waco.

Evans says he is surrounded by family in Texas and even had two sons move to nearby Waco, one from Arizona and one from Houston.

He says he enjoyed his time in Arizona and called Maricopa a great town with a great future. “It’s starting to settle in.”

But he does not miss it.