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Old Posted Jun 6, 2008, 7:12 PM
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There definitely needs to be an updated pic with the GH.
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well maybe not horrible, but it's still not great compared to some of the pictures people post on this site
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The Grand Hyatt can't be in the shot, its directly behind the Tower Life Building. The vistana when finish will be in the shot. I don't think Vidorra will be in the shot, I think its behind the Marriott.
The only way Grand Hyatt can be in the shot, is to shoot the side of it, and Photoshop it in next to tower life building. I think I will do one like that soon, but I'm waiting for the Vistana to be finish to re take the photo.
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The photo at least needs to have the tower.
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A skyline shot from the Balcones Heights area would be best imo....or either a skyline shot from U.S. 90 or 281
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For anyone wondering what happened with the sports complex in Schertz, there's an article about it in the E-N today:


Schertz: City looking back as it forges ahead

Web Posted: 06/11/2008 01:33 AM CDT

By Elaine Ayo
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As the city continues to grow, officials are working to hold on to a bit of Schertz's agricultural past.

The roughly 100-year-old Kramer house, home to one of the city's early farming families, will be the city's new visitor center. It is also the next development in a multimillion-dollar plan to create several sports and entertainment venues behind the city's municipal complex at 1400 Schertz Parkway.

“This is much bigger than refurbishing an old farmhouse somewhere,” Councilman David Scagliola said.

On June 3, the City Council approved an additional $315,497 from the city's hotel-motel fund to cover the cost of the restoration, a total of $456,000.

The visitor center is the next addition to a master-planned park behind the city's municipal complex that the city has been working on the past four years. The total cost of the project will be at least $5 million to $6 million, city Parks Director George Logan said.

The city already has secured funding for the construction of four baseball fields and the main roads and parking lots for the area. Other parts of the plan that haven't been funded include additional sports fields, a 58,000-square-foot multiuse event center and a shopping area consisting of refurbished historic homes, a concept modeled after Bracken Village off FM 2252, media relations director Brad Bailey said.

The Schertz Parks and Recreation Foundation, a nonprofit organization, has been helping raise funds for the event center, informally dubbed the Schertz Plex.

The Kramer house's original site, across Schertz Parkway from the city's municipal complex, was part of a farm run by the Kramer family until about 1971. Most of it, excluding the house and a few acres, eventually was sold to different entities, including the city of Schertz.

Walter Kramer settled on the land toward the end of the 19th century and cultivated wheat and cotton. Although the city doesn't have exact data on when the house was built, officials estimate it was around the turn of the century because of its many Victorian-era details.

“They didn't really have plans; things were just built by tradition,” said Jerry Mendenhall of J. Mendenhall Architects, who is leading the restoration project for the city.

Pulte Homes, the home builder constructing the Kramer Farm subdivision on the former farmland, donated the house to the city after acquiring it from the Kramer family. The city paid roughly $56,000 to move it to its current location near Schertz Parkway and Live Oak Road.

Besides providing office space for the city's Chamber of Commerce, the visitor center also will house a room dedicated to displaying photos and other memorabilia from the city's history, said Dean Weirtz of the city's recently formed Historical Preservation Committee.

Historic objects collected by the group also will be on display in a museum that will be created in a portion of the 9,000-square-foot former library building at 608 Schertz Parkway when the library moves to its new, 30,000-square-foot facility at Schertz Parkway and Elbel Road.

“This small room in the visitor center will only be kind of a tease to entice visitors to look further into our history at our museum,” Weirtz said.
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This is pretty cool news:
http://recenter.tamu.edu/mnews/newsS...NEWS&CID=42039

Over half a billion dollars worth of new construction in STMC through 2014!
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$100 million is for the 20-story tower.
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I've heard the 20-story tower isn't going to be 20 stories anymore. It will be same square footage, just more "horizontal".

In other words, a typical San Antonio development.
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Update on Monterrey Village development at 410 and 151.





Phase One will have 780,000 square feet of retail.

Looks like the old Wal-Mart building site will become a BEL Furniture.
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Old Posted Jun 19, 2008, 2:40 AM
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I've heard the 20-story tower isn't going to be 20 stories anymore. It will be same square footage, just more "horizontal".

In other words, a typical San Antonio development.
Not sure where you heard that but it's untrue.
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Old Posted Jun 19, 2008, 2:54 AM
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It was on a different forum, from a certain distinguished San Antonio citizen with a website devoted to highways I never found out from him where he got that info, tho. Obviously I'd like it to be erroneous.
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Not sure where you heard that but it's untrue.
what streets border this proposed tower? i go to church near the med center and usually take a drive through to check out construction (and get a latte) and it seems like the core of the med center is filling up fast.
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Spurs consider wind power a slam dunk for AT&T Center

Web Posted: 06/19/2008 01:34 AM CDT

By Vicki Vaughan
Express-News Business Writer

Now, when the lights go on at the sprawling AT&T Center, it will be “green” juice coming from West Texas wind farms.

Bexar County, which owns the AT&T Center, and Spurs Sports and Entertainment, which maintains and operates the facility, will announce today that as of June 1, it became CPS Energy's top commercial buyer of wind energy under the city-owned utility's Windtricity program.

“As an organization, we are extremely excited about this, and it is only the first step,” Spurs Chairman and CEO Peter Holt said in a statement.

“We are exploring recycling and water conservation ideas as well,” Holt added. “We really want to be a model for arenas across the country regarding sensitivity to the environment.”

The AT&T Center's agreement calls for the 750,000-square-foot building to be 100 percent powered by wind for the next two years, the longest-term wind contract CPS now offers.

CPS Chairwoman Aurora Geis said the utility is “thrilled” to have the AT&T Center be part of the utility's wind portfolio.

“We continue to do everything we can to educate the public on the importance of reducing our dependence on traditional energy sources, and the fact that our own arena will be powered exclusively by Windtricity is huge for our community,” she said.

The AT&T Center is one of several major local commercial customers that since April have announced joining the Windtricity program. Clear Channel Outdoor and H-E-B said they would get a portion of their power in San Antonio from wind energy, and Raba-Kistner Consultants Inc. announced it would get all of its electricity from Windtricity.

The AT&T Center's utility bill ranges from $1.2 million to $1.5 million a year, said John Sparks, the center's vice president and general manager. Managers have been looking at ways to manage costs.

“Windtricity isn't the cheapest thing to buy on the market, but if you look at what's happening with fossil fuels, it's a good choice,” Sparks said.

Without switching to wind power, the AT&T Center's electric bill could climb as much as 28 percent in the next year, based on the cost of fuels that keep CPS' power plants running, an analysis by Sparks' staff indicated.

Windtricity offers an advantage in addition to its green credentials: Its costs are fixed.

Like other users, the AT&T Center has been paying a fuel adjustment charge, along with a base rate, for the power it uses. The charge fluctuates depending on what CPS is using to fire its plants — coal, nuclear fuel or natural gas.

“The fuel adjustment charge is what really hurts us,” Sparks said. The flat Windtricity rate will help the center in budgeting, Sparks said.

“We're in no worse a situation buying Windtricity — and it's better for the environment,” he added.

Lynda Rodriguez, CPS solutions delivery manager, said the utility hopes at some point to offer Windtricity contracts of longer than two years.

“We'd love to see a four- and six-year deal,” Sparks said.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...T.35ac878.html
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Just in case anybody was wondering what that building was creeping out the top of the skyline when looking from 281 to the Broadway crane.
http://www.theofficesatftsam.com/bamcTwo.html
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Just the beginnig of the privatization of military buildings. Others on Post are being leased out privately too.
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Waterstone at Oakwell Farms
  • Mixed-Use development to replace Apartment complex in northeast San Antonio.
  • To consist of residential, office and retail plus a restaurant.
  • Five buildings total. Four 4 Story buildings and one 5 story parking garage.








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I was up off of Sonterra Blvd. on Mon. and have pics (not so great) of the Tesoro HQ's and the work they've already done on the Drury.
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Horizon Pointe Plaza

This is a development I've been interested in the first time I found out about it. Simply because I am happy something is finally being built on the east side.

Some back story. This site was owned by Galo Properties but was than sold to the commercial arm of Koontz-McCombs who then sold it to Weingarten.
  • What: 900,000 square foot retail center.
  • Where: Northwest corner of I-10 and Foster Rd on the East side.






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Tesoro HQ's





New Hospital in Stone Oak completed (sorry for the bad pic)



Drury Stone Oak






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Found this on http://www.globest.com/news/1204_120.../172506-1.html
Courtyard and Residence Inn
SAN ANTONIO, TX-Concord Hospitality Enterprises Co. is preparing for its first area project with the imminent groundbreaking of two hotels. The Raleigh, NC developer will begin construction immediately on a 120-room Courtyard by Marriott and its neighbor, a 140-key Residence Inn by Marriott.
Both hotels at Interstate 10 and Loop 1604 will be completed within the next 12 to 15 months. Concord Hospitality will operate both hotels, which will be situated on five acres.

"They liked the neighborhood. USAA is right across the street, it's adjacent to the RIM and the Shops at La Cantera," comments Jason Shapiro, managing director with Aztec Group Inc., the Miami, FL company that arranged for $28 million in construction financing to get the project moving. The Shops at La Cantera is a 1.3-million-sf regional mall, and the RIM is an 800-acre, mixed-use development.

Shapiro says that Concord Hospitality has a first-rate reputation when it comes to developing and managing select-service hotels. He adds that the company is one of Aztec's regular clients.
Despite that, he acknowledges that the loan was difficult to place because of capital market conditions. "We put the deal into the capital markets during Q4 2007, but the markets continued to fluctuate," he tells GlobeSt.com. "It took us awhile to settle on a lender, and to negotiate with that lender." The lender in provided a LIBOR-based, floating-rate loan that allows for a two-year construction period, followed by three years for stabilization.

"We don't know yet whether this will be rolled into permanent fixed-rate debt or sold," Shapiro comments. "Concord tends to keep its options open until management sees the numbers."
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