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Tech Bloc launches county-funded website mapping San Antonio’s Tech District

June 8, 2021 By Maggie Ryan 9 Comments

Skyline downtown San Antonio.

San Antonio’s emerging tech community now has a website, sanantoniotechdistrict.com, built by nonprofit tech advocacy group Tech Bloc, which maps out the places and businesses making up downtown’s Tech District.

Filed Under: Bexar County, Retail, Tech, Tech District Tagged With: Bexar County Innovation Fund, CAST Tech, Centers for Applied Sciences and Technology, David Heard, Fox Tech, Frost Tower, Geekdom, Nelson Wolff, Pinch Boil House, Rand building, sanantoniotechdistrict.com, Tech Bloc, Tech District

Data strategist for Trump campaign buys land by VelocityTX on near East Side

May 19, 2021 By Richard Webner Leave a Comment

Work continues on the second phase of bioscience incubator VelocityTX at 1305 E. Houston St.

A former strategist for the Trump campaign’s data team has purchased 0.75 acres of property on East Houston Street, across the street from the VelocityTX bioscience incubator on the near East Side, with a partner.

Filed Under: Development, Dignowity Hill, East Side, Houston Street, Office, Tech Tagged With: Brad Parscale, Cambridge Analytica, CloudCommerce, Concentric Oil and Gas, Concentric Properties, Data Propria, David Adelman, HUMN Behavior, Matthew Oczkowski, Merchants Ice complex, Randy Harig, REATA Real Estate, St. Paul Square, Texas Research and Technology Foundation, TRTF, Trump, VelocityTX, William Ditto

UTSA has started building its data science school, national security center on Dolorosa

January 31, 2021 By Ben Olivo 67 Comments

In December, UTSA began expanding its downtown presence with the construction of a six-story building on Dolorosa that will house its new School of Data Science and National Security Collaboration Center.

Filed Under: Bexar County, City of San Antonio, Development, Education, San Pedro Creek, Tech, Tech District, UTSA, West Downtown, Weston Urban Tagged With: Bexar County, City of San Antonio, Continental Hotel, Dolorosa, Frost Tower, Graham Weston, Houston Street, San Pedro Creek, Taylor Eighmy, University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Texas System Board of Regents, UTSA, UTSA National Security Collaboration Center, UTSA Open Cloud Institute, UTSA School of Data Science

Weston Urban plans 32-story apartment tower in downtown tech district

November 15, 2020 By Richard Webner 12 Comments

This property bound by North Main, Soledad, West Pecan and East Travis streets is slated to become a 32-story apartment tower by Weston Urban.

Weston Urban has submitted plans to the city to build a 32-story apartment tower with ground-floor retail a block from Geekdom and the Frost Tower.

Filed Under: Development, Housing, Main Avenue, Retail, Soledad Street, Tech, Weston Urban

Kiosks sprouting up on downtown sidewalks

November 1, 2018 By Ben Olivo Leave a Comment

Large kiosks are popping up on downtown sidewalks through a citywide program with Ohio-based IKE Smart City that launched two weeks ago.

Filed Under: Streets & Sidewalks, Tech Tagged With: IKE Smart City, Jose de la Cruz

Geekdom to launch new school, opportunities for entrepreneurs

October 26, 2018 By Lea Thompson 3 Comments

As Geekdom, the coworking space in the Rand building on Houston Street, celebrates its seventh birthday tonight, it will also toast the creation of its entrepreneurial trade school called The District, which is scheduled to open in February.

Filed Under: Education, Jobs, Office, Tech Tagged With: David Garcia Geekdom, Geekdom, Graham Weston, Nick Longo, The District

Startup Week offers tech entrepreneurs a chance to connect, grow

October 19, 2018 By Lea Thompson 2 Comments

San Antonio Startup Week—a five-day series of entrepreneurial and tech panels, mixers and workshops—is expected to draw 2,000 people to the city’s tech corridor of Houston Street beginning Monday.

Filed Under: Tech

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