SAN ANTONIO │ Lone Star Brewery Redevelopment Thread
It finally seems things are getting underway at the Lone Star Brewery site. After years of talk and potential buyers who were interested in the site but ultimately did nothing, there seems to be a developer willing to revitalize the long abandoned Southtown brewery.
If all goes as planned, the urban core could be book-ended by the Pearl to the north and the Lone Star to the south. Could the Lone Star be as game changing for the urban core as the Pearl has been? The developer is talking about bringing back Lone Star to brew on the site in some way, adding a Texas Music Hall of Fame as well as an outdoor music venue. That plus, housing, retail and other commercial options, could lend this development to be a true gem for the urban core and Southtown. Quote:
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I had tried to look at other projects this company had worked on and this is pretty ambitious for them. Trying to remember the site itself, I don't think it lends itself to being something like the Pearl, but I can certainly see it having a southtown feel; maybe a polished blue star.
I can't imagine Lone Star would start brewing there again in any way more than some kind of Lone Star brew pub type of thing. The dine-in movie theater probably says more about the place it's going to be. Hopefully it won't be a Quarry or Rim type development. I understand they intend to make money on this :tup: but who likes strip malls? The idea of a music hall of fame seems wrong unless that focuses and celebrates the actual history of San Antonio and South Texas. A country music based place will go the way of the old Fiesta Texas or the Aztec Theater's San Antonio Rose (they won't work in that limited way). If they did go forward with the HOF idea, it should mainly be a live music hall with the memorabilia on the side. And finally, they are located on the river! :drowning:They should completely invite and link to the advantage of the linear park and any changes related to world heritage inclusion of the missions. The recycling center next door looks toxic:dead: |
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I took this shot the last time I was up in the helicopter. |
Got a sneak peek at the rendering and the whole project looks awesome! Looks much cooler then what the Peal has turned into. The renderings included a huge European style glass atrium market with multiple craft breweries, a cinema, retail, beer garden, apartments with multiple pools, and a hotel. The old pool on site right now will be a large fountain. Parking garages will be located along the outer perimeter of the property.
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Aqualand adds heavy hitter to help redevelop Lone Star Brewery
W. Scott Bailey Reporter/Project Coordinator San Antonio Business Journal May 19, 2016, 10:02am CDT Updated May 19, 2016, 11:10am CDT http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantoni...e.html?ana=twt Quote:
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There are some renderings as well as the site plan for Lone Star Brewery on their website http://lonestarbrewerydistrict.com
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Very interesting. It's like part Pearl, part suburban town center-type development. By suburban town center I mean that it has a fuckton of parking and is pretty much not connected to anything around it except the river, but that's really more a function of the context of the site than anything I guess. Overall this should be a very positive development for the south side if it ever gets off the ground.
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Obviously Lone Star is different and better than those because of its location and the fact that it's at least partially adaptive re-use, but in a lot of ways it looks, in my opinion, functionally very similar to something like Sugarland Town Center (isolated, privately owned/maintained streets, lots of parking, "galleries" and private parks). |
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I'd wager a bet that the Pearl currently has more surface parking than what Lone Star shows to have in its plans. |
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I'm sorry, but that comparison is just hyperbolic rubbish imo. |
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Just be thankful that an abandoned brewery is being transformed into an absolute gem of a development on the near south side of San Antonio. This will eventually be called part of "Southtown", but make no mistake this was the "Southside" ten, five years ago. Now, that's being built there. Great times ahead for the urban core. |
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