SAN ANTONIO | Essex Modern City | Mixed Use | Proposed

[UrbanTrance]

SAN ANTONIO - A portion of the East Side might be getting a facelift if the San Antonio City Council approves a zoning change. Councilman Alan Warrick said developers are looking at improving an area near South Cherry Street and Carolina Street.

Warrick said the area will be considered the "Essex Modern City" and will include condos, apartments, restaurants, a micro-brewery and a vertical farm.

http://news4sanantonio.com/news/loca...ift-04-02-2016

The partnership, which splits the ownership among Varga Endeavors' founder Efraim Varga and Harris Bay founders Jake Harris and Anton Bayer, closed on the 5.99-acre parcel at the corner of Essex and South Cherry streets two weeks ago and got its infill development zoning request approved in April. It has already raised nearly $6 million in its first round of financing for the project, which has the potential to include more than 1 million square feet of retail, office, multifamily, for-sale residential and parking space.

Ideas for the project, called Essex Modern City, sound more like something found in Santa Monica, California, or Seattle than San Antonio. An extreme focus on environmentally friendly products and energy efficiency, "living" garden walls and a climbing structure along the facade of the parking garage will all be built around a central courtyard — the developers' nod to European plazas.

An option to buy an additional 2 acres is also available, which Varga told me the partnership will likely close on before the end of the year.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantoni...pital-for.html

I don't know if this is a conceptual image or an actual rendering.




Website:
http://essexmoderncity.com/