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After years of searching for financing and cleaning up asbestos-riddled soil, the redevelopment of the Big Tex site is closer to becoming a reality.

City Council is expected to vote on a proposal Thursday for a more than $5 million incentive package to redevelop the former Big Tex property near the Blue Star Arts Complex.

Known as Blue Star Phase II, the development on the 7.5-acre riverfront property is expected to cost upwards of $42 million, according to Dan Markson, senior vice president for the NRP Group LLC, the developer.

The property would be removed from the Inner City Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, according to the council agenda. City staff recommended that the project receive a 10-year tax abatement worth $2.3 million, a Chapter 380 grant for up to $750,000, an Inner City Incentive Fund Grant of $1.28 million and other fee waivers that would bring the total to nearly $5.1 million, according to the agenda.

Plans for the redevelopment project include 320 market-rate residential units, live/work space, 6,000 square feet of retail space and structured parking, Markson said. The grain silos and the main tower will be incorporated into the project, which will have a modern and industrial feel with several open spaces and walkways.

The developer also has $2.2 million slated for other public improvements such as a road that runs through the property.

If the incentives are approved, Markson said that construction would begin in the first quarter of 2013 and the first units would come online during the first quarter of 2014.
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Old Posted Jul 7, 2012, 3:16 AM
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Why is the SA thread so danged slow while the Austin one is blowing up all the time? Is there just nothing going on in downtown SA? When I was recently there, it looked like some stuff was happening, would love to know more about SA development.
Not sure why the San Antonio thread is so slow, with all the recent construction activity thats been going on this, thread should be blowing up.
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THE URBAN 15 GROUP MASTERPLAN / ADAPTIVE RE-USE





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In the Southtown of San Antonio, Robey Architecture has designed the adaptive re-use of a 20,360 square foot church sanctuary and an adjacent classroom/dormitory building into an integrated 27,600 square foot multi-purpose performance theater. The adaptable multipurpose spatial planning correlates the multiple functions of the Urban 15 Performance Group; dancing, multimedia performances, rehearsal spaces, individual practice spaces, distance learning classrooms, dressing rooms, administrative offices, artist residences, costume and set design and creation areas, as well as unique gallery spaces. The existing formal brick buildings welcome the juxtaposition of a new modern and expressive architecture, reminiscent of the culture and art inherent in the Urban 15 Group.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2012, 3:39 AM
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The Can Plant Residences at the Pearl Brewery progress


the Mosaic and 1800 Broadway construction


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Old Posted Jul 9, 2012, 3:55 AM
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Carbon-capture plant slated for Alamo City

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Date: Friday, July 6, 2012

Austin-based Skyonic Corp. will build a $125 million carbon-capture facility at Capitol Aggregates Inc.’s San Antonio cement plant to recycle its emissions into less-harmful byproducts such as bicarbonate soda.

The facility, scheduled to open in 2014, is designed to reduce the cement plant’s airborne emissions by roughly 15 percent, or 83,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. It also will filter acid and heavy metals from its flue gasses.

Construction work on the project will begin in September.
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Old Posted Jul 24, 2012, 10:46 PM
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San Antonio to buy power from 400 MW Texas solar plants

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July 24 | Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:55pm IST

(Reuters) - San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy agreed to buy 400 megawatts of solar photovoltaic power from OCI Solar Power in a 25-year deal that will create more than 800 long-term jobs for the Texas economy.

OCI, a unit of South Korean chemical company OCI Co Ltd , put together a consortium of solar power manufacturers that together will spend about $1 billion to build the solar projects and needed manufacturing facilities, CPS spokeswoman Lisa Lewis told Reuters on Tuesday.

OCI and partners will construct the solar projects over the next four years, with the first 50 MW to be built in the San Antonio area by the middle of 2013.

Other solar plants will go up within 120-mile (193-kilometer) radius ofSan Antonio, and in West and North Texas, Lewis said.
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Aareil view of 1800 Broadway, with The Mosaic (Blue crane) and The Pearl.





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Old Posted Jul 25, 2012, 3:57 AM
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Tower crane above the new Tobin center of the performing arts, you see the second crane base by the white truck.





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Old Posted Jul 25, 2012, 4:05 AM
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Downtown living tour
Posted on 07/24/2012 by vlucio

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Mayor Julian Castro addressed the media as the tour kicked off at the Cevallos Lofts, a 250-unit, mixed-use development near the start of the Mission Reach portion of the San Antonio River. Castro reiterated the strategy for housing first in the core, mentioning the goal to create 7,500 residential units downtown by 2020. Along with several residential units coming online, the mayor also pointed to the other projects expected to change the downtown landscape such as the Mission Reach expansion, the Tobin Center renovation, the convention center expansion and the HemisFair redevelopment.

“By 2020 you will have seen a real renaissance downtown,” he said.

After a quick look at a two-story unit at Cevallos Lofts, which boasted two room that each had master bathrooms and walk-in closets, the tour commenced. Most of the projects along the tour were not complete except for Cevallos Lofts, 1221 Broadway and part of the Can Plant apartments.

Here’s a quick run down of each of the projects on the tour:

- Cevallos Lofts: 301 E. Cevallos, 252 units, 98 percent occupied, opened January 2012

- Blue Star Phase II: 500 block of Blue Star, 320 units, expected to open Fall 2014

- Steel House Lofts: 1401 S. Flores, 69 units, 33 percent pre-leased, expected to open Fall 2012

- The Viceroy: 1010-1012 S. Flores, 56 units, expected to open in October

- 1221 Broadway: 99 percent occupied, 309 units, 39 units under construction

- River North Multifamily: Avenue E and 13th Street, 256 units, expected to open sprint 2015

- Brackenridge Hill: E. Mulberry and Brackenridge Avenue, 280 units, expected to open fall 2013

- 1800 Broadway: 221 units, expected to open in December

- The Mosaic: 1915 Broadway, 120 units, expected to open March 2013

- Can Plant: 503 Avenue A, 293 units, phase 1 opened in July, Phase 2 and 3 expected to
open in the fall, 22 percent pre-leased, 25,000 square feet of retail space
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1010 South Flores (The Viceroy) progress







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Great updates JATX. I'm looking forward to the Hemisfair redevelopment.


Here is a link to the Hemisfair Masterplan and it includes more than ten parcels designated for possible "very tall structures" as it is worded. I was hoping for some new tall's with the redevelopment and looks like they are possibility.

http://www.hemisfair.org/

http://www.hemisfair.org/pdfs/2012-0...aster_Plan.pdf
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Great updates JATX. I'm looking forward to the Hemisfair redevelopment.


Here is a link to the Hemisfair Masterplan and it includes more than ten parcels designated for possible "very tall structures" as it is worded. I was hoping for some new tall's with the redevelopment and looks like they are possibility.

http://www.hemisfair.org/

http://www.hemisfair.org/pdfs/2012-0...aster_Plan.pdf
Thanks, I'm looking forward with the plans of Hemisfair park as well.

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Hill Country's downtown — La Cantera



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By Valentino Lucio Updated 11:26 p.m., Tuesday, August 14, 2012

In the coming years, the area around The Shops at La Cantera will become more than just a destination for shopping and dining.

USAA Real Estate Co. and Houston-based Cambridge Development Group have started construction on The Residences at La Cantera, a high-end mixed-use project that will incorporate 323 apartments and more than 4,000 square feet of retail space, said Bruce Petersen, executive managing director of real estate investments for USAA Real Estate Co.

The project is the initial phase of Town Center at La Cantera, a multiple-phase project on about 150 acres that will include a hotel, office and retail space and additional multifamily units. The Residences will be located on a 5-acre swath of land east of the shopping center 6215 Via La Cantera.

“We're convinced that this type of location will have tremendous appeal for not only San Antonians but Mexican nationals,” Petersen said.

The project cost for The Residences will be close to $50 million, and the development is expected to be complete by spring 2014, Petersen said.
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From Rudy Ramirez's nearly 100-year-old bungalow along North Alamo Street, the sights and sounds of investment along Broadway near the Pearl Brewery are unavoidable.

From his front porch, he can see the 1800 Broadway luxury development take shape. He's accustomed to the sounds of banging hammers and grinding machinery that have become background noise.

“I see the development, and I think it's great,” he said. “It'll probably help the value of this property.”

Just east of the vibrancy at the Pearl and along Broadway are several blocks of rundown homes, boarded-up shacks and vacant storefronts. But community stakeholders say the blighted fringes of Government Hill are about to give way to a redefined neighborhood — one that they've been waiting for a long time.

The city's push to redevelop downtown and its aggressive incentive packages have lured a slew of investors near the city center. In the Broadway corridor, the city has doled out more than $20 million in incentives to developers, who are investing more than $200 million there.

It's estimated that the area could see about 1,200 new residential units within the next few years.

As those projects begin to take shape, so too, does the neighborhood.

A few blocks south along North Alamo Street, longtime San Antonian Mitch McManus is developing the Casa Blanca Lofts, a low-density condominium project that is expected to come online late next year.
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San Antonio ranked 4th for new housing starts in the nation.

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A&M-S.A. has plans to blossom





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By Jennifer R. Lloyd Updated 11:27 a.m., Sunday, August 19, 2012

In the only building on campus, the president of Texas A&M University-San Antonio looks out her window at rolling brush land and sees the future —a mushrooming complex of academic buildings, housing and everything else needed by a student population that could top 25,000 in the next 20 years.

The growth has already started and could help reshape the city's less affluent South Side, boosting its low educational attainment and drawing new residents and businesses.

This month, Texas A&M University System regents approved $75 million for two more buildings, including a massive future campus centerpiece, both critical to the university's freshly inked development plan.

“When we did the groundbreaking for the road ... in my mind, I was trying to be inspired by standing there, but I was having a hard time,” said President Maria Hernandez Ferrier.

“Today, I can look at our development plan and it's real,” she said, shaking her fists triumphantly in the air.
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Metro Wide Update

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More hospitial construction
Forest park

Santa Rosa Children's hospital(Blending in with existing structure)
http://herald-zeitung.com/news/local...a4bcf887a.html





San Antonio Mission Reach along River
sanantonioriver.org

Confluence park S.A. Mission Reach


http://gov.bexar.org/cvp/MissionReach.html




Sunken garden Theatre proposed Redevlopment








San Antonio Scorpions NA Soccer League Stadium Build out.



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San Antonio River Museum Reach-completion
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Broadway 1221 at San Antonio Museum Reach
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