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Weston Urban expected to buy Koehler House to serve as hotel, restaurant

February 21, 2022 By Richard Webner

The Koehler House is located at 310 W. Ashby Place.

Developer Weston Urban is reaching beyond downtown as it prepares to buy the historic Koehler House from the Alamo Colleges District.

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Historic Preservation, Hotels, Tobin Hill, Transactions, Weston Urban Tagged With: ', Alamo Colleges District, Alamo Colleges District Board of Trustees, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Catholic Student Center, Conservation Society of San Antonio, Dr. Robert Vela, Dry Goods Building, Frost Tower, Geekdom, Graham Weston, Hughes home, Jordan McMorrough, Koehler Cultural Center, Koehler House, Office of Historic Preservation, Otto Koehler, Pearl Brewery, Rand building, Randy Smith, San Antonio College, Savoy building, Shanon Shea Miller, Texas Historic Landmark, Tobin Hill, Tobin Hill Community Association, Weston Urban

Weston Urban’s 15-story apartment mid-rise behind Continental Hotel in downtown San Antonio gets initial approval

July 22, 2021 By Richard Webner

The de la Garza House would be incorporated into the new development planned by Weston Urban for the area bound by the former Continental Hotel and Arana buildings.

Weston Urban’s plan to restore the former Continental Hotel and build a 15-story apartment tower along San Pedro Creek in west downtown won conceptual approval Wednesday from the city’s historic review board.

Filed Under: Architecture, Bexar County, City of San Antonio, Commerce Street, Development, Housing Tagged With: Arana building, Bexar County, Bexar County PFC, Bexar County Public Facility Corp., City of San Antonio, Continental Hotel, Gabriel Q. Velazquez, Graham Weston, HDRC, Historic and Design Review Commission, Melchio de la Garza, O. Henry House, Pinkerton's Barbecue, Rand building, Randy Smith, River Walk, Royal Blue Grocery, San Pedro Creek, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, Savoy building, Taylor Eighmy, University of Texas at San Antonio, UTSA, Weston Urban

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

June 8, 2021 By Maggie Ryan

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

Trailblazing downtown apartment tower wins initial approval from HDRC

December 16, 2020 By Richard Webner

Rendering shows Weston Urban's proposed 32-story tower at 305 Soledad St.

Weston Urban’s plan to build downtown’s tallest residential building, a 32-story apartment tower, took a step forward on Wednesday when a city board granted its design conceptual approval.

Filed Under: Center City Housing Incentive Policy, Development, Housing, Soledad Street, West Downtown, Weston Urban Tagged With: Conservation Society of San Antonio, Frost Tower, Geekdom, HDRC, Historic and Design Review Commission, North Main Avenue, Patti Zaiontz, Planning Commission, Rand building, Robert E. Lee Apartments, Soledad Street, Weston Centre, Weston Urban

Royal Blue Grocery eyes February opening

September 20, 2018 By Ben Olivo

The Austin-based store will offer a little bit of everything, “coffee and breakfast tacos, grab-and-go salads and sandwiches, grocery, beer/wine, snacks, beverages.”

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Houston Street, Retail Tagged With: Book Building, Craig Staley, Frost Bank, Geekdom, Historic and Design Review Commission, Milam building, Rand building, Royal Blue Grocery, Savoy Hotel, Scaleworks, Weston Urban

Work begins on Houston Street food hall

September 19, 2018 By Ben Olivo

GrayStreet Partners, one of the largest holders of downtown real estate, has begun putting a 15,000-square-foot food hall into the ground and mezzanine levels of the former children’s museum on East Houston Street.

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Houston Street, Office, Retail Tagged With: Andrew Goodman, AREA Real Estate, Burns building, Chuck Holdridge, Codeup, Cogeco Peer 1, David Adelman, Devils River Whiskey, DoSeum, Geekdom, Grant building, GrayStreet Partners, KDC, Kress building, Maverick building, Peter French, Playland, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rand building, Royal Blue Grocery, Savoy building, Stefan Bowers, Weston Urban

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