SAN ANTONIO | Suburban and Metro Development Thread

[miaht82]

Just near it; across from Basse, not part of "Quarry Market"

[The Model]

Today is a great day for photographs, looks like someone had fun this morning. As for me stuck in the office all day today.

[sirkingwilliam]

It's on the east side of Basse Rd. between Quarry Market and the Quarry golf course.

[ooo0mercury0ooo]

Thanks for the Pictures SirKingWillias. They are great. I have not been to La Cantera Area in a while. There is too much going on overthere.
And for Tesoro HQ, I also wish -like "the Model"- that it was in Downtown or 410 &281, even at Crossroads.
But oh well.
Everything looks good.

[oldmanshirt]

Here's some pics from my time in SA this weekend. Please excuse the ones where I was a dummy and didn't adjust the ISO properly



Construction site next to our hotel (Best Western) and across 281 from Tesoro. Not sure what's going here.


Cresta Bella, in the now-exploding I-10 corridor north of 1604


Elian


Two views of the Drury




The Rim (south end)


Changing gears: The Broadway, now on floor 11


Quarry Village




The burgeoning Midtown skyline with Olmos Basin in the foreground


Stone Oak Drury Plaza hotel


Going up I-10, heading back to Kerrville. . .

[ooo0mercury0ooo]

At first i was like. When is the Broadway gonna go up? Now its like.... Wow it's going fast.
Thanks for the update OldmantShirt

[miaht82]

pic from: Galo Properties


Off of Pantheon and 281. Originally the blue building was an office building but now they are looking to have an extended stay Four Points. I know someone mentioned the site before. Both are set to be 6 floors each although a HP resident was concerned that a fire truck ladder couldn't reach the top if there were a fire.

From ClickitSA.com

Hollywood Park considering plans for new hotel
Thursday, 23 October 2008
By Robert Goetz
Staff Writer
Two Four Points by Sheraton hotels are in Hollywood Park’s future, both of them on the same site.

The City Council last December approved a special-use permit that allowed a Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, which is part of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., in a “B” zoning district.

The 130-room, six-story facility will sit on a 3.73-acre parcel at U.S. Highway 281 and Pantheon Way and is scheduled to open in December 2009.

Last week the city’s Zoning Commission unanimously approved a special-use permit for the second Four Points hotel, which will be built next to the first one, close to the Pantheon Way-Arden Oaks intersection. Council was expected to consider the permit request at its meeting this week.

Walter Busby, president and chief operating officer of developer Galo Properties, said the second facility, an extended-stay hotel, will not exceed six floors and will have 88 rooms. The first hotel will accommodate overnight guests and will offer more amenities such as a restaurant, a fitness center and an outdoor heated swimming pool.

“We’re trying to get an economy of scale and have the same staff serve both hotels,” he said.

Zoning Commissioner Patrick Fetzer asked that the second hotel’s height not exceed that of the first one, a stipulation he included in his motion. The first hotel’s height was an issue last year when one resident feared the Hollywood Park Fire Department’s ladder truck might not adequately serve the structure.

Another commission member, Nard Tollette, echoed Fetzer’s concern about the second hotel’s height.

“It’s a pretty tall structure,” he said. “The height is excessive.”

City Secretary Barbara Haddock told the commission that neighbors within 200 feet of the structure were notified about the special-use permit request, but that nobody responded.

“We did not receive anything from anyone,” she said.

Galo Properties’ original plan called for a 15,000-square-foot office building where the second Four Points by Sheraton Hotel will stand.

[oldmanshirt]

Is that the "20 story research tower" that we've been hearing about forever?

[Schertz1]

Wow...very nice! Let's hope it's not the 20 story tower; I think it may be.

[oldmanshirt]

Cibolo unveils plans for multi-event venue
11/13/2008

(Cibolo) - Cibolo has plans to create a new recreational and entertainment venue that will cost $3.6 million to build. The Cibolo Multi-Event Facility will be located on five acres of land at FM 78 and Main Street. The facility will be decked out as a world-class soccer facility. The venue also will be designed to accommodate other public events - including festivals, concerts, farmers markets and theatre-in-the-park productions. The Cibolo Economic Development Corp. is providing the initial $1.6 million to build Phase I of the facility. Construction on this initial phase is scheduled to be completed by April 2009. Phase I will open with various amenities, including an 80-foot-by-120-foot regulation soccer field, fully lighted and built to Major League Soccer/World Cup standards; ticket booths and concession stand; restrooms; security fencing; and parking for 1,000 cars. The facility will feature bleacher seating for 4,000 - with the ability to expand the capacity to 10,000 people in the future. The multi-event facility will be integrated with the planned Cibolo Town Center - a 1,000-acre development that will include civic and cultural centers, retail and residential development, plazas and office space. Amenities in Phase II of the multi-event facility will include a press box, a 6,000- to 7,000-sf multipurpose clubhouse, a 1,000-sf meeting space/publicity/interview room and separate officials locker rooms with shower. Phase II is slated for completion in 2012; costs for this phase have been estimated at $2 million

http://recenter.tamu.edu/mnews/newsS...NEWS&CID=44554

[sotxag62]

That horizontal plan for the South Texas Research (STR) building took me by suprise also. It looks so out of place with the surrounding buildings. Yep, I think they had the USAA concept of a long building. I could only guess that the labs could be bigger by having horizontal space rather than going vertical. I just hope they build those overhangs high enough. We have a walkway between our garage and main building, and so many trucks have hit our building's crosswalk.

I hadn't heard any more about the 23 story tower since it was proposed a while back. Either the plan is that the building has been split between the MARC (medical arts & research center) the 8 story building mostly complete, and the 4 or 5 story STR building (they are clearing the land) ... or option B, the MARC is only the 1st phase of with the 23 story tower added when funding arrives. I remember the UTHSC-SA prez was pushing the tower, but it's all quite now.

Another interesting thing, is that that land down there is very unstable. There is a multitude of drainages, maybe even springs. Any buildings in the area have to have maybe 15-30 f00t pillars in the ground. Even with this, we had about a dozen windows break due to stress fractures in our building.

Check out how bad Floyd Curl Drive is, with cracked pavement, due to the heaving ground in the area.

BTW I work in the medical center, and always interested in new buildings, so hit me up for info.

I was also curious where you found those pics of the new STR facility. I still have not found any other major websites discussing it.

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sotxag62

[STLtoSA]

Originally Posted by sotxag62

Check out how bad Floyd Curl Drive is, with cracked pavement, due to the heaving ground in the area.

BTW I work in the medical center, and always interested in new buildings, so hit me up for info.

I was also curious where you found those pics of the new STR facility. I still have not found any other major websites discussing it.

appreciatively
sotxag62

Yeah, Floyd Curl is a mess there. fixing that stretch is going to be piggy-backed as an alternate bid to the Floyd Curl and Hamilton Wolfe Intersection Improvement project, that will start construction in April or May. If the bids are right and the money is there it will be fixed.

You are right about that land being a little unstable, but some of the problems on that stretch of Floyd Curl have been intinsified by poor construction and pavement design.

About construction in the area:

The VA and University Health Systems are both going to construct new parking garages.
University Health Systems is also going to build a new tower at the hospital (don't know how many stories yet).
To my knowledge the STRC design hasn't changed for some time now. Ever since the city started construction at Floyd Curl and Charles Katz, the design has been the same.

[sotxag62]

Here was a town hall meeting for the UTHSCSA school of medicine 9/18/2008.
The middle section of the presentation has the plans for new facilities, new university hospital tower, a 6 mi running track through the med ctr.

http://aisvid.uthscsa.edu/Medical/Vi...layerType=WM7#

if that does not open up, go to this website, and hit the section on the far right side of the screen where you see the town hall meeting.

http://som.uthscsa.edu/

[STLtoSA]

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[adtobias]

Thats one nice hospital they want to build

[jaga185]

I have Safari, I can't view it can someone possibly post the rendering?

[sotxag62]

hmm... I need a quick study in how to load a picture into this forum ... new at this ... I was going to paste in the picture of the new UHS facilities...

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sotxag62

[miaht82]

Originally Posted by KeepSanAntonioLame

All I know is about the two apartment complexes on Austin Highway. The first one, at the site of the former Seven Oaks hotel, is already complete. The second one is being built where there were some crummy old motels. I had seen that Billy Ts had been closed, but I just thought it was because their burgers sucked. I don't know anything about a condo.

skimmed through some records and came up with some info/updates on projects:

• "The second one" is a Chancellor Development project that will look like this, but with 120 more units; the one in this pic has 240
  
  Its similar to Artessa at Quarry or the 1800 on Broadway in that it will be a wrap-around complex.
  

  The current properties are located at 1107 to 1125 Austin Highway, along the north side of the road between Mt.
  Calvary Drive and North New Braunfels Avenue, and near Terrell Hills and Alamo Heights.
  “We are very excited about this sale because the new project will represent one of very few new redevelopments of its
  kind close in to the urban center of the city,” said Sykes, of First American. “It will be bring a fresh look and complement other
  continuing improvements along Austin Highway.”
  Chancellor plans to construct a single building wrapping around an interior parking garage, with two swimming pools –
  one resort-style and the other a lap pool – as well as a cabana. The project will be similar to one the company developed in
  Kingwood, north of Houston, called Harbor View, a four-story, 250-unit apartment complex that also wraps around an internal
  parking garage, as part of a mixed-use development called Kings Harbor.

• Many permits were granted this week for 1901 S. San Marcos for what most of us might know is going to be the development at Union Stockyards.
  Franklin Developments is the company and valuation of permits is well over 6 million for what looks like 9 total buildings

• Also in the "same area;" there were also permits in valuation of over 4 million to NRP Group on S. Calaveras off of Frio City Rd; they already have the San Juan Apts on Ceralvo.

• Building at 1962 Alamo St. received permit for million dollar addition and renovation. Also "Broadway Lofts" will be seeing some work done soon.

• 161 Commerce, the building across from Aztec Building and Drury Inn, got permit for interior renovation. *studio/condos* w/ retail on 1st floor is what is being tried there.

• Trying to find out what Malitz Construction is doing at the Billy T's site.

[Keep-SA-Lame]

Neat.

[Ryneone]

Here are some picture's I took today.