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Still Golden Social House site to be acquired for Jefferson Bank headquarters

December 3, 2019 By Ben Olivo

Still Golden Social Club, 1900 Broadway

The property at 1900 Broadway, known by cocktail aficionados as the Still Golden Social House, is under contract to be sold and incorporated into the future Jefferson Bank headquarters building, the project’s developer confirmed. Which begs the question: What will happen to Still Golden?

Filed Under: Broadway, Development, Food & Drink, Government Hill, Office

Rezoned properties offer glimpse of GrayStreet’s 23-acre Broadway East campus

July 5, 2019 By Ben Olivo

The rezoning on Tuesday of two properties on the 1800 block of North Alamo Street help identify another piece of the 23-acre mixed-use development GrayStreet Partners is planning within the fast-changing neighborhood of Government Hill, opposite the Pearl from Broadway.

Filed Under: Development, East Side, Government Hill, Neighborhoods

Amid rapid change, Government Hill divided on how to absorb incoming development

July 3, 2019 By Gaige Davila

The resident of this house in Government Hill displays an anti-gentrification sign that read "Tax incentives (for developers) to gentrify us feels like a genocide" in the front yard.

A difference of opinion on how this community should handle incoming development has caused a rift in Government Hill Alliance, the neighborhood association that’s represented the near-East Side community since 1988.

Filed Under: Deep Dive, East Side, Government Hill, Neighborhoods

Some East Side residents near downtown feel property value spike, others don’t

April 16, 2019 By Heron Staff

Some near East Side residents like Jeannine Qualls feel they’ll soon be wiped out by the wave of rising property values. Others are coming in to ride that wave.

Filed Under: Denver Heights, Dignowity Hill, East Side, Government Hill, Neighborhoods

Tax freezes sought for near West Side, Denver Heights, Government Hill

April 5, 2019 By Ben Olivo

By year’s end, the City of San Antonio wants to designate a segment of the near West Side, and the near-East Side communities of Denver Heights and Government Hill, as neighborhood empowerment zones (NEZ), a Texas statute that allows home owners to have their city property taxes frozen for no more than 10 years.

Filed Under: Denver Heights, East Side, Government Hill, Housing, Neighborhoods, West Side

Three-story townhome proposal in Government Hill receives pushback

February 8, 2019 By Gaige Davila

A townhome project proposed for Government Hill has met some resistance from longtime residents who are worried their near East Side community is changing without their input.

Filed Under: Government Hill, Housing

The preservation fight in Government Hill that wasn’t much of a fight

August 22, 2018 By Ben Olivo

Not all preservation fights are public, drag out affairs. In the Government Hill neighborhood, just north of downtown, there is a circa-1922 house at 705 E. Grayson St. that was built by a prominent San Antonio doctor and that’s less than a block from all of the restaurant and bar action that’s creeping into the […]

Filed Under: Development, Government Hill, Historic Preservation, Neighborhoods

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