SAN ANTONIO | Suburban and Metro Development Thread

[UrbanTrance]

NORTH SAN ANTONIO CORPORATE CAMPUS

Located on 23 acres along the North IH-10 corridor in San Antonio, this corporate campus-anchored mixed-use development includes over 300,000 SF of office and 300 luxury apartments units over 75,000 SF of restaurant and retail uses. Office program and rooftop amenities are vertically integrated over more than 1,500 structured parking spaces. The parking levels are designed to be converted to future office uses when and alternative transportation reduces parking demand.

https://nelsenpartners.com/nb-portfo...ntonio-office/

[JACKinBeantown]

^^ Great, they'll be able to film a remake of Soylent Green there.

[Keep-SA-Lame]

That is an exceptionally optimistic amount of water in Leon Creek in the first rendering lol.

[SA_Pride28]

"The parking levels are designed to be converted to future office uses when and alternative transportation reduces parking demand."

Well I guess I'm glad they're looking ahead to the future. I just can't help but think how much better this suburban development would look as a vertical tower downtown and not contributing ever more to the urban sprawl.

[sirkingwilliam]

112-ARCE, 800,000 SQUARE FOOT DEVELOPMENT PLANNED FOR LIVE OAK

A Dallas-based company is planning an 800,000 square foot retail development to be anchored by the IKEA in Live Oak.

[TSK18]

Is it common to have "luxury apartment units" right next to a highway?

[sirkingwilliam]

Originally Posted by TSK18

Is it common to have "luxury apartment units" right next to a highway?

More so in Texas. You’ll find many developments adjacent to freeways that have luxury apartments or luxury residences. In Houston and Dallas it’s very common. La Cantera has two luxury apartments right of 1604 next to the Shops.

[SA_Pride28]

Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam

More so in Texas. You’ll find many developments adjacent to freeways that have luxury apartments or luxury residences. In Houston and Dallas it’s very common. La Cantera has two luxury apartments right of 1604 next to the Shops.

This is an urban Texas trend that I hope stops very soon.

Communities, in my opinion, should be as such: communities.

I.e. you shouldn't have to get on the access road and the freeway to go to the grocery store or middle school.

[UrbanTrance]

I don’t know why they couldn’t have done the corporate campus closer in to town. I mean, the layout is far superior to what is already in the area. No mass surface parking? Street level retail? If only the projects on the other side of 1604 could take note. But it does suck that they always have to go as far as possible to city limits and create these isolated islands.

[Spoiler]

Originally Posted by SA_Pride28

This is an urban Texas trend that I hope stops very soon.

Communities, in my opinion, should be as such: communities.

I.e. you shouldn't have to get on the access road and the freeway to go to the grocery store or middle school.

Texans are more into commute-ities, where you go from the exit ramp directly to the security gates.


And there is no Leon Creek Greenbelt that far north, it would be more accurate to describe it as the Leon Creek Floodplain.

[Fryguy]

Originally Posted by SA_Pride28

This is an urban Texas trend that I hope stops very soon.

Communities, in my opinion, should be as such: communities.

I.e. you shouldn't have to get on the access road and the freeway to go to the grocery store or middle school.

Thank you! I'm always prefered a centralized city versus sprawl - what's going to happen when we run out of gas, which will eventually happen? It's one of the reasons why we have such horrible traffic. And the road between Austin and San Antonio...horrible! Takes me 2+ hours to drive to Austin. It use to be 1 hour, sometimes less. And that was only 8-10 years ago.

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by Fryguy

Thank you! I'm always prefered a centralized city versus sprawl - what's going to happen when we run out of gas, which will eventually happen? It's one of the reasons why we have such horrible traffic. And the road between Austin and San Antonio...horrible! Takes me 2+ hours to drive to Austin. It use to be 1 hour, sometimes less. And that was only 8-10 years ago.

People will start buying electric cars. But I agree, mass transit and centralized communities are much better options. People in Texas will realize that (in 50-60 years).

[cibolo]

the land has been cleared and there is a lot of activity at the area now so looks like this project is finally under way. From the VALCOR website:

https://valcorcre.com/portfolio-posts/cibolo-crossing/

[sirkingwilliam]

Originally Posted by cibolo

the land has been cleared and there is a lot of activity at the area now so looks like this project is finally under way. From the VALCOR website:

https://valcorcre.com/portfolio-posts/cibolo-crossing/

Oh wow. That’s a new design style for Santikos. If that is indeed how the new theater will look, and I do like it, it is quite the departure from their usual style and dosing motif.

[JACKinBeantown]

Am I missing something? I only see an image in which it looks like a car dealership. I hope I got a bad link or something.

[sirkingwilliam]

Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

Am I missing something? I only see an image in which it looks like a car dealership. I hope I got a bad link or something.

This is what I’m referring to.

[JACKinBeantown]

^^ Yup, that's what I saw. Thanks for clarifying.

[UrbanTrance]

It looks a lot better than the typical, dated Taj Mahal type theaters they were doing. That massive surface parking is yuck, though.

[Daren]

Two new theaters being built next to each other??
The Santikos at Cibolo Crossing and Evo Entertainment at Wiederstein Ranch retail development.

[Rynetwo]

Originally Posted by Daren

Two new theaters being built next to each other??
The Santikos at Cibolo Crossing and Evo Entertainment at Wiederstein Ranch retail development.

Not only that but bowling and games too?