SAN ANTONIO | Urban Core Development Thread - Page 136

ydoc14 · #**2701** Posted **Aug 15, 2010, 6:06 PM**

^^^ Wow the stairway is really cool

miaht82 · #**2702** Posted **Aug 18, 2010, 11:36 PM**

Updated rendering of Cevallos Lofts on Alamo Architects website...

Here is the site as it was almost 2 months ago (geez time flies,)
the site is now cleared and dug down pretty deep. Perhaps underground parking? I'm not sure.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/...07f04692_b.jpg

This is the new rendering:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/...0f63e6f9_z.jpg

4 stories is good height for that area, which is mostly single family homes and warehouses. I like this design better than the older one. The old one looked a bit suburban. The newer one adds more height and bumps the building up to the street, giving a more "dense" appearance, even though the number of units remains the same at 252. Another plus for DT.

old one:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/...31d82377_z.jpg

sirkingwilliam · #**2703** Posted **Aug 19, 2010, 3:38 AM**

LOVE the new look.

jaga185 · #**2704** Posted **Aug 19, 2010, 8:11 PM**

Nice! I love the new design.

oldmanshirt · #**2705** Posted **Aug 19, 2010, 11:56 PM**

Looks like they've done a good job incorporating traffic calming measures. The setbacks seem to be pretty ideal for that area, though I'm not sure if that's a design decision or a result of the zoning.

SAonFire · #**2706** Posted **Sep 11, 2010, 4:36 PM**

The following article was posted today on mySA.com. I think this deal could potentially yield a "win-win situation" for both properties!

It would be ideal if public input was incorporated into any "final" designs for both properties.

What do you think?

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/edu...102677114.html

Keep-SA-Lame · #**2707** Posted **Sep 12, 2010, 2:23 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SAonFire

The following article was posted today on mySA.com. I think this deal could potentially yield a "win-win situation" for both properties!

It would be ideal if public input was incorporated into any "final" designs for both properties.

What do you think?

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/edu...102677114.html

Saw that this morning. Great news for Southtown and the East Side.

I also saw this article about how hotels have apparently been overbuilt downtown. NO WAY.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business...102666669.html

miaht82 · #**2708** Posted **Sep 12, 2010, 6:14 PM**

I just saw this; all I can say is that this is a great move for both, especially the city and most importantly, DT. The truth is that the Friedrichs location was bad for any real redevelopment to happen with it not only being on the eastside, but also being right up against the cemeteries.

I won't quite call it a complete win yet, depending on what the city does with the land, but it could work out well. While I still think that HEB has something up its sleeve with the old Ricos HQ's building (which is empty now,) I don't see who else the city would be talking to about having a grocery store there. Even if a grocery store isn't going in that location, it's still great to open up that land to development and get SAISD out of there. Wasn't this part of Andujars vision for downtown?

max7 · #**2709** Posted **Sep 13, 2010, 1:23 AM**

Does anybody know what they are doing to the Tower Life Building where the antenna used to be? I know that they did already install a flag pole at the top of the building, but at the apex where roof supports the flag pole there seems to be some type of construction going on. It has been going on for several weeks. Are they reinforcing the flag pole base, or are they redesigning it? What is going on up there?

Tower Life BuildingOR The Tower of Life Building

kornbread · #**2710** Posted **Sep 13, 2010, 2:34 AM**

I thought the Friedrich building was recently purchased by some group out of Los Angeles? I can't remember the name, but it was some group that bought old buildings in bad neighborhoods and they did job training for people down on their luck (or something like that).

arturo_pro · #**2711** Posted **Sep 13, 2010, 3:30 AM**

this is happening rght now

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...life-epis.html

sakyle04 · #**2712** Posted **Sep 13, 2010, 4:31 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by kornbread

I thought the Friedrich building was recently purchased by some group out of Los Angeles? I can't remember the name, but it was some group that bought old buildings in bad neighborhoods and they did job training for people down on their luck (or something like that).

that is what i was told... "it was going to be..."

maybe it fell through...

ydoc14 · #**2713** Posted **Sep 13, 2010, 5:28 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by max7

Does anybody know what they are doing to the Tower Life Building where the antenna used to be? I know that they did already install a flag pole at the top of the building, but at the apex where roof supports the flag pole there seems to be some type of construction going on. It has been going on for several weeks. Are they reinforcing the flag pole base, or are they redesigning it? What is going on up there?

The base of the flagpole/what used to be the antenna is being restored to its original design from the '30s.

FastFerrari82 · #**2714** Posted **Sep 14, 2010, 8:50 PM**

thats awsome exposure for san antonio!!! Give some folks a nice look at our roomy downtown we have. Lots of space you guys to build out here

ydoc14 · #**2715** Posted **Sep 15, 2010, 5:45 PM**

the base of the flagpole on TL is finished

UrbanTrance · #**2716** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 1:34 AM**

I thought this was cute.
We're getting a dog park

Glad downtown can have one.

oldmanshirt · #**2717** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:36 AM**

Awesome! I've been to the one in downtown Kansas City and it was pretty busy. Its something relatively cheap that a city can do that makes a big difference to a lot of people, especially urban dwellers who have pets in lieu of having kids.

Onward · #**2718** Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 3:06 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alice93

I thought this was cute.
We're getting a dog park

Glad downtown can have one.

Thats some good news

We need more of them around town. The current one was quite the drive from Helotes.

oldmanshirt · #**2719** Posted **Sep 30, 2010, 11:29 PM**

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story...fB5l4tvsw.cspx

Plans for a Little Italy in/near downtown.

Keep-SA-Lame · #**2720** Posted **Sep 30, 2010, 11:43 PM**

That's not random at all.