{SA} 10-Story Justice Center Breaks Ground Downtown

[miaht82]

Originally Posted by royal744

OK, folks, calm down. Not only has ground NOT broken on this project, the architectural team hasn't even been selected yet. The only thing for sure about this project is that it will be near city hall on the police headwquarters building site. The land deal has apparently been consummated. No one knows how tall it will be because it hasn't been designed.

Yes it has broken ground, unless the south part of the Justice center is growing steel out of the back side and dirt and equipment is the new landscaping scheme they have. We know that no rendering or estimates have been made of the FEDERAL BUILDING, this is not the thread for it anyway.

Originally Posted by royal744

This thread was supposed to be about the new FEDERAL BUILDING, and not the County Courthouse Addition. The blurb cited is about the county building and not the Federal Courthouse.

Was it? I thought it was about the 10 STORY JUSTICE CENTER ADDITION; just like the thread suggests. You can't just show up 8 months late to a thread and change the topic.
We know the site for the Federal building is the SAPD HQ's. I think if you would read the whole thread you would see that any confusion has been sorted out.
He said:

Originally Posted by verbl

Cool... does this have anything to do with the new SAPD HQ or is that something completely different.

And he answered:

Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam

Completely separate.

and then things got sorted things out here:

Originally Posted by oldmanshirt

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there's three gov't buildings lined up: this one, the Federal Courthouse, and the Police HQ.

So we know that the 10 story justice center that is currently being worked on is not part of the Federal Courthouse that is set for the SAPD HQ's

Originally Posted by royal744

There will be a new SAPD building, but it definitely will not be in Hemisfair Park.

When Paul in S.A. TX wrote that he hopes it was at the Hemisfair site; he said he HOPES, not that it is going to be built there.

This site is a forum. We talk about things, we are not “officials” making announcements.
We have visions of what we think should happen DT, but like I said nothing is official, but it is open for discussion.

[jaga185]

I was driving past the site today on 35, there was some sort of crane-esque thing on the site.

[ooo0mercury0ooo]

Originally Posted by jaga185

I was driving past the site today on 35, there was some sort of crane-esque thing on the site.

That is it!! That is the crane for the Justice center.. they were setting it up on Sunday... It was kind of scary to see the thing going up all moving arround...LOL.. It looks like the crane is half way up...

[miaht82]

taken today by me

[KevinFromTexas]

So it's topped out then. Looks good. I'm surprised they used a steel frame. Most buildings in Texas are concrete. Steel skeletons go up faster typically, so I wonder if they went with that for schedule reasons.

I like the building. It suits San Antonio well.

[sakyle04]

now wait for the city to do something permanent with the former city hall annex and we have some real density building in the southern area of DT proper...

[ooo0mercury0ooo]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

So it's topped out then. Looks good. I'm surprised they used a steel frame. Most buildings in Texas are concrete. Steel skeletons go up faster typically, so I wonder if they went with that for schedule reasons.

I like the building. It suits San Antonio well.

I think the Tower of life was made out of steel frame as well..

[KevinFromTexas]

^I believe so too. Most older buildings in Texas were made of steel. Austin's first steel skyscraper, the Scarborough Building, was built in 1910. Few others have been built since the 60s though.

[JACKinBeantown]

Austin is winning the height contest (and some pretty cool buildings), but SA is putting up buildings in keeping with the feel of the city (except for the Bland Hyatt).

[KevinFromTexas]

Friday, October 2, 2009, 2:54pm CDT
Bexar County plans to invest in downtown solar-energy system
San Antonio Business Journal

Bexar County Commissioners Court is close to receiving $1 million in federal funds that will be used toward the development of the Bexar County Solar Collection Farm and Distribution Center.

This project involves the installation of a 200-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the Bexar County Justice Center. The county wants the solar system at the building to generate 10 percent of its annual electricity usage.

Read more

[necropolis]

So how's this nice addition coming along? how high has the internal framing gone up to now...I'm glad this was built behind the current justice center to bring some life to DT away from where it's at currently, even though its just the other side of the block. Also, from one of the pics I saw that they started re-doing the roof to the courthouse (and as I remember, trying to match the new tiles color scheme with the old ones) how's that looking at the moment

[Paul in S.A TX]

I was downtown for jury duty, thought I would take a few pics.

[oldmanshirt]

Good shots Paul, looks like we're adding density where it counts - at street level.

[Paul in S.A TX]

My exact thoughts! Just can't wait for the super talls to be announced.

[miaht82]

If the new Federal Building can be similar height or taller, that would completly change that area from what is/was a couple years ago.

Shouldn't be long before we hear an announcement about that. SAPD has to be in their new building within 2 years.

[Onward]

Wow awesome update! Thanks for all the pics Paul.

[Lando]

Took this pic earlier today.

[JACKinBeantown]

It's interesting that the "back side" of downtown is getting these newer buildings.

[KevinFromTexas]

Thanks for the updates, Lando.

[Complex01]

I heard they were going to build a 5 story parking garage by this one. Since this building took the parking that was there...