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Historic Palace Livery Stable turned Artes Graficas print shop sold to San Antonio real estate firm

May 13, 2022 By Richard Webner Leave a Comment

The Palace Livery Stable, 115 Camaron St., was recently purchased by real estate firm DJE Texas Management Group of San Antonio.

A local real estate firm plans to move into the historic Palace Livery Stable and Artes Graficas print shop building at 115 Camaron St.

Filed Under: History, Office, San Pedro Creek, Transactions, West Downtown Tagged With: 300 Main, Alameda Theater, Alvarado & Alvarado, Artes Graficas, Bexar Appraisal District, Central Candy Company, Continental Hotel, Devin Elder, DJE Texas Management Group, DK Realty Advisors, Frost Tower, Harris Bay, Office of Historic Preservation, Palace Livery Stable, Penner’s, San Antonio Police History Archive, San Pedro Creek, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, The Helix Apartments, Travis Building, UTSA, Weston Urban

Lifshutz says sculpture he brought to downtown San Antonio ‘mocks’ Lenin, Mao

March 23, 2022 By Ben Olivo 1 Comment

The sculpture "Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head" resides on the back of private property on the 300 block of West Commerce Street near the San Pedro Creek Culture Park.

“The intention of their piece was not to honor or glorify Lenin or Mao. And it’s not my intention, either. … I’m not trying to glorify authoritarians, particularly Communists. I’m a capitalist, through and through,” said James Lifshutz, the downtown developer who brought a controversial sculpture depicting Chairman Mao and Vladimir Lenin to west downtown.

Filed Under: Art, Centro San Antonio, City of San Antonio, Commerce Street, General News, San Pedro Creek, West Downtown Tagged With: Alameda Theater, Andi Rodriguez, Centro San Antonio, Chairman Mao, Fletcher Benton, Gao Qiang, Gao Zhen, James Lifshutz, Kline building, Krystal Jones, Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, Shanon Shea Miller, Texas Public Radio, Vladimir Lenin, West Commerce Street, West Houston Street, Weston Urban, Zona Cultural

Rising rents, high occupancies signal ‘Decade of Downtown’ in San Antonio has worked, developers say

February 4, 2022 By Richard Webner 89 Comments

San Antonio Downtown drone shot.

The downtown San Antonio apartment market, which city leaders went to such great effort to grow, has matured to a point where it is drawing major attention from out-of-town investors.

Filed Under: Center City Housing Incentive Policy, City of San Antonio, Deep Dive, Development, Housing, Midtown & Pearl, Sidebar Deep Dive, Southtown Tagged With: 120 Ninth Street, Alamo Manhattan, Augusta Flats, Austin Investor Interests, Blackstone, Brad Miller, Brady Tower, Broadway, Broadway East, Cadillac Lofts, Canopy By Hilton, CCHIP, Cellars at Pearl, Center City Housing Incentive Policy, City Council, Constellation Group, Covid-19, Crockett Urban Ventures, David Adelman, Decade of Downtown, Ed Cross, Encore Multifamily, Encore SoFlo, Flats at River North, Franklin Templeton Investments, Government Hill, GrayStreet Partners, Hemisfair, HemisFair Park PFC, HemisView Village, Heritage Plaza, Inspire Downtown, Institutional Property Advisors, Jeremy Jessop, JJ Real Co., Jones & Rio, Jones and Rio, Julián Castro, Midway, Mission Escondida, Mission Reach, Mission Trails, Museum Reach, Patrick Shearer, Pearl, River Walk, Rivera on Broadway, Ron Nirenberg, San Antonio Housing Trust PFC, San Antonio River, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, SC Bodner Company, Southline, Southtown, Southtown Flats, Stillwater Capital, Strategic Housing Implementation Plan, Strategic Property Investment, The '68, The Agave, The Baldwin, The Floodgate, Towers at the Majestic, University of Texas at San Antonio, Vistana, West Oaks, Weston Urban, White Conlee

Dallas firm buys Encore SoFlo apartments in south downtown San Antonio

January 9, 2022 By Richard Webner 67 Comments

Encore SoFlo, 326 S. Flores St., has been sold to Strategic Property Investment, a firm with offices in Dallas and Austin.

The 338-unit Encore SoFlo, one of the recent apartment buildings to breathe life into the area north of the H-E-B SoFlo Market, has been purchased by Texas firm Strategic Property Investment.

Filed Under: Center City Housing Incentive Policy, Housing, Transactions Tagged With: Birwood Heights Apartments, Blue Star Arts Complex, CCHIP, Center City Housing Incentive Program, Encore Multifamily, Encore SoFlo, H-E-B SoFlo Market, Hemisfair, Heritage Plaza, La Mirage, Michael Becker, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, Sean Mabarak, Southtown Flats, Strategic Property Investment

‘Laredito’ brothel, orphanage in west downtown San Antonio closer to landmark status

September 15, 2021 By Richard Webner 8 Comments

The Dashiell House, 503 Urban Loop, could be designated a local landmark.

The 1883 Dashiell House, once a brothel in San Antonio’s red-light district before serving as a nursery, is now eligible to become a designated landmark—against the will of its owner.

Filed Under: Historic and Design Review Commission, Historic Preservation, West Downtown Tagged With: Aurelia Dashiell House, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q, Boys Town, Brown & Ortiz, Butch Cassidy, Carmelite Sisters, Conservation Society of San Antonio, Dashiell House, Douglas Miller, DPMiller Investments LLC, Dwight Eisenhower, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Fannie Porter, Fort Sam Houston, Graciela Sanchez, HDRC, Historic and Design Review Commission, James McKnight, Laredito, Office of Historic Preservation, OHP, red-light district, Rev. J.W. Shaw, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, Scott Carpenter, Vincent Michael, Westside Preservation Alliance

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

July 22, 2021 By Richard Webner 1 Comment

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

A closer look at Weston Urban’s 15-story mixed-use project in west downtown San Antonio

July 18, 2021 By Ben Olivo 1 Comment

The 15-story, 255-unit Weston Urban development from the perspective of West Commerce Street.

Weston Urban plans to build a 15-story apartment building between the former Continental Hotel and Arana building in west downtown.

Filed Under: Architecture, Bexar County, City of San Antonio, Commerce Street, Development, Housing, Office, Parking, Retail, San Pedro Creek, Tech District, West Downtown, Weston Urban Tagged With: Alfred Giles, Arana building, Bexar County PFC, Bexar County Public Facility Corp., Continental Hotel, HDRC, Historic and Design Review Commission, Kline’s building, Leeds building, Leo M.J. Dielmann, Lone Star Brewery, Melchio de la Garza House, O. Henry House, O. Henry House Museum, Office of Historic Preservation, OHP, San Pedro Creek, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, Spanish Colonial, Trish DeBerry, University of Texas at San Antonio, UTSA, UTSA National Security Collaboration Center, UTSA School of Data Science, Weston Urban

Leeds building restoration in west downtown San Antonio approved by historical commission

July 7, 2021 By Ben Olivo 1 Comment

The Leeds building, 345 W. Commerce St., is looking to be renovated by Cory Stehr and a business partner. June 16, 2021 HDRC agenda. Courtesy rendering

Last month, plans for the restoration of the Leeds building, 345 W. Commerce St., were approved by the Historic and Design Review Commission.

Filed Under: Architecture, Commerce Street, Development, Historic Preservation, Office, Retail, West Downtown Tagged With: Cory Stehr, HDRC, Historic and Design Review Commission, Leeds building, San Pedro Creek Culture Park

‘It’s like conducting a symphony.’ Building downtown poses unique set of challenges

April 22, 2021 By Richard Webner 48 Comments

As tourists and locals flock to the Canopy by Hilton, downtown’s latest hotel, they most likely won’t have a clue as to the difficulties in building something that tall, and on the river no less.

Filed Under: Architecture, City of San Antonio, Commerce Street, Development, Hotels, River Walk Tagged With: Canopy By Hilton, Chris Hill, Crockett Urban Ventures, David Adelman, Domingo, Floodgate, GrayStreet Partners, Hemisfair, Otro, Patrick Shearer, River Walk, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, The '68

Developers of $400M Riverplace project sign incentive agreement with city

April 20, 2021 By Richard Webner 53 Comments

Riverplace is a planned $400 million mixed-use development in northwest downtown that would occupy both sides of the River Walk.

Riverplace would fill about 3.2 acres of land with a 20-story multifamily building, a 17-story condominium building and an office building of undetermined height, along with the 21-story Dream Hotel.

Filed Under: Architecture, Center City Housing Incentive Policy, City of San Antonio, Development, Historic Preservation, Hotels, Housing, Office, River Walk Tagged With: Arts Residences at Thompson San Antonio, Chuck Brehm, Dream Hotel, Edmund Beck, Geekdom, Graham Weston, Real International, River Walk, Riverplace, San Pedro Creek Culture Park, Universal Services Group, Weston Urban

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