SAN ANTONIO | Urban Core Development Thread - Page 40

KevinFromTexas · #**781** Posted **Feb 10, 2008, 5:37 AM**

Did anyone realize that fountain is actually part of the original mono-rail that Hemisfair Park had? I read that somewhere. And yeah, the GH looks alright there.

METALMiKE · #**782** Posted **Feb 10, 2008, 6:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Did anyone realize that fountain is actually part of the original mono-rail that Hemisfair Park had? I read that somewhere. And yeah, the GH looks alright there.

Wow thanks for that little piece of info. I never knew that.

and yeah the GH is lookin really nice.

KevinFromTexas · #**783** Posted **Feb 10, 2008, 6:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by METALMiKE

Wow thanks for that little piece of info. I never knew that.

and yeah the GH is lookin really nice.

Yeah, I was really surprised by that. Had no idea.

Here's where I saw it. Click the link, (PDF file), and scroll down to page 8. This has info on other structures in the park too.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a

ydoc14 · #**784** Posted **Feb 11, 2008, 10:58 PM**

Here's today's traffic cam from 281/St. Mary's

The monster has devoured the Marriott, and is waging war on Tower of the Americas!

verbl · #**785** Posted **Feb 12, 2008, 12:25 AM**

Haha good

ydoc14 · #**786** Posted **Feb 14, 2008, 4:24 PM**

Today's traffic cam:

verbl · #**787** Posted **Feb 14, 2008, 7:56 PM**

Like somebody said before it's the great wall of San Antonio

I love it

verbl · #**788** Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 4:28 AM**

Anyone of you fellow San Antonians have new pics of the Vistanna? If I was back in SA I would contribute pics but of course........ I love that new building

necropolis · #**789** Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 4:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by verbl

Anyone of you fellow San Antonians have new pics of the Vistanna? If I was back in SA I would contribute pics but of course........ I love that new building

Well the Vistana website has a webcam that you can look @ and it's updated every few minutes too... http://www.thevistana.com/

Dom"n"Converse · #**790** Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 3:56 PM**

Does anyone have any idea what the pricing starts at?

METALMiKE · #**791** Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 4:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dom"n"Converse

Does anyone have any idea what the pricing starts at?

$650 per month.

ydoc14 · #**792** Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 11:01 PM**

A new pedestrian bridge will be built across the Riverwalk linking the Drury Plaza to Main Plaza.

Seen in the HDRC Agenda for Feb. 20

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The applicant is requesting final approval...the structure will be clad with punched bronze and copper panels...either linear flourescent or LED fixtures are being considered. For the torchere type fixtures, either LED or incandescent sources are being considered.

verbl · #**793** Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 11:11 PM**

Rad is it gonna be like the under pass over by the Alamodome? ( the one with all the LEDs) that bridge is gonna look awesome.

adtobias · #**794** Posted **Feb 16, 2008, 7:11 PM**

any new highrises for downtown

The Nano · #**795** Posted **Feb 18, 2008, 3:05 AM**

I just thought id let yall know that i read in the SA Business Journal that Piazza San Lorenzo will break ground this spring. But who knows, theyve been saying it will break ground for quite a while now. Ill attempt to scan the article sometime later in the week.

ydoc14 · #**796** Posted **Feb 18, 2008, 4:40 AM**

Some new GH pics. The first one can't be posted, so you'll have to click the link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/louloublue/2269923131/

Taken by Nathan Huth @ Flickr

verbl · #**797** Posted **Feb 18, 2008, 5:22 AM**

Those were good flicks. I love the ones she took were river north is going to be.

KevinFromTexas · #**798** Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 12:29 AM**

Austin's KXAN News 36 has a collection of web cams from various cities. There's several web cams of San Antonio listed.

Click on the links to check it out. The website has it set up so you can view the images as a time lapse. This is neat since the camera is pointing towards the Grand Hyatt. The time lapse works for all the cameras.

Click on the link below.

http://web.live.weatherbug.com/LiveC...=KENST&lid=CLI

http://wwc.instacam.com/instacamimg/...5-021820081901

Main page is here:
http://web.live.weatherbug.com/LiveC...=1&lid=CENLIST

Mopacs · #**799** Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 2:26 AM**

Sneak preview of a thread I'm putting together. Check this out, from 20 years ago next month... the old Hemisfair arena..and the old garage. Now home to the convention center and Grand Hyatt. The Rivercenter mall had just opened and the Marriott was still u/c:

Schertz1 · #**800** Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 2:49 AM**

The web cam pix also shows what I noticed when I was last in San Antonio, the red lights on top of the marriott spires are very close to the bottom of the house on the TOA and quite a bit taller then the GH.