30 years is VERY exaggerated, but to be fair, Jack doesn't live here & see what is going on here day to day.
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Wasn't meant to put you down Jack, by any means, just saying there is so much more going on here than what is on these forums. & sometimes you just have to see it to fully gage it.
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The old court house needs to be torn down. It is absolutely disgusting. The bathrooms, the asbestos, the mold, it's not salvageable. I have had to be in that building a few days for work, and it's GROSS. I feel bad for the permanent staff on site. :uhh:
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Has it been maintained? No, but that isn't a reason for tearing it down. The Pearl's buildings were in worse shape, but they were restored and repurposed. The theatre's structure is sound, the design is good, and the historical significance is high. |
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I walked by the courthouse today. The '68 apartment building right next to it looks nice and has tenants now. The rest of Hemisfair park still looks like a bombed-out abandoned city with weird sculptures everywhere. |
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Not all buildings, especially government buildings, are worthy just because they are occupied. This new courthouse is years, maybe decades, overdue. |
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The problem with the courthouse is two-fold: 1. It was never designed as a courthouse, and 2. It has never been maintained. Repurposing (or restoring it back to its original function) would fix both problems. Spoiler mentioned the Hedrick building as an example of a structure in worse shape. Look also at what they did with the Savoy Building on Houston Street. Yes, old doesn't necessarily mean historic, but I think it would be a shame to tear down the old "courthouse" just because it wasn't maintained. My biggest fear is what would replace the building - wood framed apartments? While many of these new apartment buildings we see sprout up around downtown currently look nice on the outside, their design, quality, and method of construction is not meant to last. |
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Every frontage of Cesar should have apts with retail that are well done to create an interesting streetscape. This should feel like the entry point for downtown. With Alamo and Cesar being a major intersection we build towards. |
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Edit: Also the little old house the Granary is in. |
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Didn't realize this was so far along, I never go down Santa Rosa. It'll look really nice from the creek. Thank god we got this going before Trump's "all new federal buildings must be neoclassical" edict kicked in :barf:
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I kind of would have been here for that. But I'm happy we are getting this regardless.
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Take a look inside the modern federal courthouse now open in downtown San Antonio
https://sanantonioreport.org/take-a-...n-san-antonio/ The last of 300 employees began relocating Saturday into the new federal courthouse on West Nueva Street. The move takes them from a windowless, repurposed rotunda and other aging buildings at Hemisfair to a modern, custom building in scale with the massive judicial district it serves. In recent weeks, nine federal judges and the probation and pretrial employees have set up shop in the new facility. |
The building itself looks nice. The sign out front, the first thing you see, looks like 1968 Bulgaria.
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