Updated 10:56 a.m. Tuesday In a ruling Monday, District Judge Laura Salinas denied a request by the Hays Street Bridge Restoration Group that would have temporarily halted the development of a five-story apartment project just north of the bridge at Cherry and Lamar streets on the near East Side. [ Read the Judge Salinas’ decision. […]
Development
Work to begin Monday on Broadway timber-framed office building
For many years now, the segment of Broadway between McCullough and Jones avenues — in downtown’s northern pocket — has been dying a slow death. Once known as San Antonio’s dealership row, the last of the car salesmen, Cavender Cadillac, left five years ago for Loop 1604. Other, smaller businesses have cleared out leaving building shells […]
Update: Sculley approves Hays Street Bridge apartments
Updated 12:35 p.m. with comments from developer Mitch Meyer City Manager Sheryl Sculley on Tuesday approved a five-story apartment project that a local development team is proposing for a controversial vacant lot just north of the Hays Street Bridge on the near East Side. Developer Mitch Meyer, who is partnering with Eugene Simor, owner of […]
Museum Reach Lofts to offer true affordability
The Museum Reach Lofts, a project near the Pearl that’s currently in the works, may sound like downtown’s latest luxury apartments. Look closer and you’ll find these envisioned dwellings are an anomaly of sorts for the center city: they’re affordable. Like, for real. Alamo Community Group, a local nonprofit developer and operator of affordable housing […]
Adelman could receive $335,000 incentive for Houston Street office building
Prominent downtown developer David Adelman could receive a city incentive worth up to $335,000 for the renovation of the historic Burns building, 401 E. Houston St. Currently, the remodel has begun on the four-story building. The $11.3 million project will add 39,000 square feet of creative office space to Houston Street, and continue a trend […]
USAA expansion means more parking during non-business hours
USAA gained conceptual approval on Wednesday for a parking garage expansion at its downtown building at One Riverwalk Place, 700 N. St. Mary’s St., which will result in more parking during non-business hours for people visiting downtown. The garage will be open to the public, with the public parking starting after 7 p.m. Monday through […]
Zoning, charter amendments among housing ideas sure to stir controversy
After nine months of meetings and brainstorming, the Mayor’s Housing Policy Task Force presented its first concrete ideas for how to address San Antonio’s most challenging housing woes. The presentation, given to the City Council on Wednesday, offered some concepts sure to be controversial, as well as an array of sobering statistics. One big issue […]