The Alamo Community Group (ACG), a local nonprofit developer of affordable housing, today closed on two properties on which rare downtown affordable housing will be built. The $17.5 million project, known as the Museum Reach Lofts, totals 94 units and will sit on a .6-acre piece of land on the southeast corner of North St. […]
Whisky Rose hopes to capitalize on west downtown’s future growth
Restaurateur Ceasar Zepeda, who owns and operates Sangria on the Burg on the northwest side, has been tapped by Weston Urban to open a restaurant at the Rand building on West Houston Street, around the corner from current tenant Rosella at The Rand. The restaurant, Whisky Rose, whose address is 143 Soledad St., will offer […]
San Antonio Film Festival runs through Sunday
The San Antonio Film Festival (SAFILM) enters its 24th year beginning tonight at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle. This year’s lineup, the fourth at the Tobin, includes more narrative features than previous SAFILM incarnations, executive director Adam Rocha said. SAFILM Program | Schedule “This is the birthplace of Hollywood in […]
USAA’s ‘downtown campus’ taking shape
USAA doubled its downtown workforce Monday by adding more than 270 tech employees into One Riverwalk Place, 700 N. St. Mary’s St. The employees join 200 USAA employees already working at the building, which the company purchased in 2013. Currently, USAA is renovating four floors of the adjacent 28-story building at 300 Convent, formerly known […]
In Dignowity Hill, views are nuanced on incoming apartments
On Hays Street on a late Saturday morning, we find Dwayne White (above) emerge from a friend’s worn, off-kilter house. White also lives on Hays, but down closer to the Hays Street Bridge and a 1.7-acre lot where a developer wants to put a five-story apartment building.
13-story Presa Street tower gets final approval
A plan to build a 13-story apartment tower at 421 S. Presa St. was given final approval by the Historic and Design Review Commission on Wednesday. The project will consist of 73 units, said Wimberley developer Tim Proctor, who spoke briefly with reporters after the item was approved. Proctor did not give many details on […]
Analysis: Explaining the Bridge Apartments revisions that never happened
In late March, when City Manager Sheryl Sculley revived the controversial Bridge Apartments development on the near East Side, she did so with a set of 11 stipulations the developer had to meet in order for the project to move forward. Or were they 11 suggestions? Developer Mitch Meyer was to discuss the stipulations with […]
H-E-B parking garage going up
File this one under: “Something being built you’ll be curious about, but that won’t impact your life (unless you work at H-E-B headquarters).” Earlier this year, H-E-B began construction on a seven-story parking garage at Dwyer Avenue and César E. Chávez Boulevard. The structure will include a pedestrian bridge over Chávez that connects the garage […]
Dwyer Avenue apartments grow a floor
A request to raise the height of a proposed 327-unit apartment building at 401 S. Main and 307 Dwyer avenues — from five to six floors — was approved last Friday by the Historic and Design Review Commission. Austin-based Argyle Residential is building the $57 million project that will also include 5,000 square feet of retail […]
Wes Fest continues with ‘Isle of Dogs’ at Hemisfair
If you haven’t had a chance to take in Wes Fest, yet, there’s still time. Slab Cinema’s tribute to auteur Wes Anderson continues with a screening of “Isle of Dogs,” 8 p.m. Saturday at Hemisfair, 434 S. Alamo St. Wes Fest, as it’s called, continues with screenings of “The Royal Tenenbaums,” July 27 at the […]