SAN ANTONIO | Urban Core Development Thread

[SpiritofSeguin]

Actually, a huge ferris wheel would be pretty at home at the South Bank parking lot that faces the Fat Tuesday/Hard Rock Cafe strip. If it's built strategically and tall enough, you'd actually be able to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk in the same eyeline. You'd also have a clear overhead shot towards Civic Park and the Tower. This is also where the horse carriages are allowed to park which fits with the circus ride aspect. Maybe the horses can walk around in a circle around the ferris wheel

[Keep-SA-Lame]

Originally Posted by Spoiler

It's exempt from height restrictions because it's not a building!

Wait, really??

[Spoiler]

Originally Posted by Keep-SA-Lame

Wait, really??

I was joking, but now I'm wondering....

[Spoiler]

Ok here's an actual answer to the question:

Meet 'Grandisimo,' the Alamo's planned 200-foot-tall neighbor

https://www.expressnews.com/business...o-19385093.php

The Alamo is protected by a “viewshed” ordinance preventing high-rise structures from tainting views of the site. Parks and Stovall said the observation wheel adheres to the restrictions.

So there you have it. The wheel "adheres to the restrictions." That's vague enough for me to believe I was right all along!

[Rynetwo]

A new bar slated for the River Walk is expected to start taking shape this summer.

Local developer Chris Hill is planning to commence work on a bar under the St. Mary's Street Bridge in July, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The bar — under the project name "Under the Bridge" — folds into Hill's Canopy by Hilton hotel, which opened in 2021.

The project was approved by the Historic and Design Review Commission in July 2023. In the application for design review, the developer said that any installations that are part of the bar would be standalone, with no permanent alterations planned for the sidewalk, the wall or the underside of the bridge.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sananton...ridge-bar.html

[Restless One]

Originally Posted by Spoiler

Ok here's an actual answer to the question:

Meet 'Grandisimo,' the Alamo's planned 200-foot-tall neighbor

https://www.expressnews.com/business...o-19385093.php



So there you have it. The wheel "adheres to the restrictions." That's vague enough for me to believe I was right all along!

They might as well be vague. Those restrictions are stupid anyway.

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by Restless One

They might as well be vague. Those restrictions are stupid anyway.

If you're referring to the height restrictions behind the Alamo, I disagree. They're there to ensure that the view of the Alamo will always look sorta like it did in 1836, so tourists can stand there and feel all their touristy emotions, then go to the restaurants on the Riverwalk and support the local economy by eating a ton of food and continuing to be obese when they fly back to Kansas.

[SpiritofSeguin]

Originally Posted by Rynetwo

https://www.bizjournals.com/sananton...ridge-bar.html

I don't see how a bar could go there cause this is what that space looks like today and every weekend, unless the line queue will be literally in front of the drinkers.

[Restless One]

Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

If you're referring to the height restrictions behind the Alamo, I disagree. They're there to ensure that the view of the Alamo will always look sorta like it did in 1836, so tourists can stand there and feel all their touristy emotions, then go to the restaurants on the Riverwalk and support the local economy by eating a ton of food and continuing to be obese when they fly back to Kansas.

You're getting salty in your old age Jack.

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by restless one

you're getting salty in your old age jack.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

If you're referring to the height restrictions behind the Alamo, I disagree. They're there to ensure that the view of the Alamo will always look sorta like it did in 1836, so tourists can stand there and feel all their touristy emotions, then go to the restaurants on the Riverwalk and support the local economy by eating a ton of food and continuing to be obese when they fly back to Kansas.

Ha. On one of my many visits to the Alamo a tourist from Georgia asked us if that was the real Alamo because he couldn't believe that it was in such an urban area.

[Keep-SA-Lame]

Originally Posted by The ATX

Ha. On one of my many visits to the Alamo a tourist from Georgia asked us if that was the real Alamo because he couldn't believe that it was in such an urban area.

Is it too late to convince everyone that the Bracketville movie set is the real Alamo?