SAN ANTONIO | Suburban and Metro Development Thread - Page 34

sakyle04 · #**661** Posted **Apr 17, 2009, 6:32 PM**

A Building Permit has been issued for a $11,100,000 building at 603 E Hildebrand. It is listed as a school building - so we can assume that its UIW stuff.

sakyle04 · #**662** Posted **Apr 17, 2009, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lando

I don't know if it has been discussed on here before but does anyone know what is being built off of 410/Military by Potranco. That project had been going on for what seems like years now. Passed by there earlier today and saw that there's another building under construction. It looks to be at least four stories high.

don't know about that, but a building permit was issued for a 53' tall entry tower/monument at 1438 SW 410. $1,900,000.

miaht82 · #**663** Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by sakyle04

A Building Permit has been issued for a $11,100,000 building at 603 E Hildebrand. It is listed as a school building - so we can assume that its UIW stuff.

I think Trinity; it is across from the "Devine Tower" location.

TXlifeguard · #**664** Posted **Apr 20, 2009, 5:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by miaht82

I think Trinity; it is across from the "Devine Tower" location.

There's no telling. It's absolutely on the north side of Hildebrand, since it's an addy that ends in an odd number - and Incarnate Word High School (IWHS) is "more-or-less" next door (but on the north side of the street at 727 East Hildebrand. I always thought Trinity's northern terminus was Hildebrand. I also had always thought this was the land that Koonts-McCombs was gonna eventually put a tower on. My higher education construction and development background is all on the public/state side of the fence, and am often taken aback at how quickly Agneese (UIW's president) can get dirt moving on that campus.

Going back to the 'more-or-less' comment from above, this piece of land isn't directly next door to IWHS- The Feik School of Pharmacy, which is a part of UIW, but not IWHS sits immediately to the west of IWHS. With the construction of Feik, the UIW campus has leap-frogged IWHS. (It's my understanding that there isn't a whole lot of interaction between UIW and IWHS. There are separate boards of directors, foundations, administrators, facilities, etc.)

It could also be a building to to house UIW's recently announced School of Optometry. I remember the school of Pharmacy moved FAST, so maybe it's the same thing with the school of Optometry.

It's also possible that I took three paragraphs to say that I really don't know any more than the rest of you already did. My detective skillz suck tonight. I'm going to bed.

miaht82 · #**665** Posted **Apr 20, 2009, 3:57 PM**

This is fun, I like playing the guessing game. I think the UIW optometry school was going to be at Datapoint and Wurzbach at the NW campus.

Found it!
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children.

miaht82 · #**666** Posted **Apr 20, 2009, 5:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by sakyle04

$8.5 million dollar new construction permit has been awarded to Zachry at 3201 E Houston - which is next to the AT&T Center...

Any ideas as to what this could be?

Freeman Coliseum: 113,400-SF equine center groundbreaking

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from RECenter.tamu.edu

Officials broke ground on a 113,400-sf equine center and multiuse facility on the Freeman Coliseum grounds that will upgrade the venue for the rodeo's horse show and create space for boat shows and other events. cont..

miaht82 · #**667** Posted **May 3, 2009, 8:45 PM**

Went to my dad's this weekend, never really thought of the sights until recently. You tend to take some small things for granted when you live down there. So this weekend, I thought I would take some pics and give a small tour of some of the sites. It was a busy weekend down there; Bluebonnet Days and the Tour deKarnes. Here are pics I took starting down 181 and up 123,just outside of 1604.

Fence and Country Skyscrapers

Longhorns right outside Floresville

Downtown Floresville

Poth

Falls City

Karnes City
Karnes County Courthouse

Panna Maria

Cestohowa

That's It!! Not much. Only 40 minutes out of 1604 but feels like it farther than that.

jaga185 · #**668** Posted **May 4, 2009, 1:55 AM**

Nice pics, I've never been to any of those towns except Floresville, and it's been about 12 years since then.

oldmanshirt · #**669** Posted **May 6, 2009, 6:04 AM**

Cool pictures!

Floresville is one of the places I've talked to my wife about moving to when we (hopefully) move back to SA. Its definitely my favorite of the rural towns south of the city.

sakyle04 · #**670** Posted **May 6, 2009, 3:48 PM**

nice detective work, miaht.

of the equine center... that's what we voted to build out there? and for $8.5 million? yeesh.

sakyle04 · #**671** Posted **May 6, 2009, 5:08 PM**

The new 200,000 sq ft UTHSC lab in the med center will be 1-story tall.

Glass half-full: less available space to build, more density.
Glass half-empty: 1-story?!?!?!

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The $150 million South Texas Research Facility will be a single-story building stretching two-tenths of a mile along Floyd Curl Drive. The open floor plan will allow for better communication among scientists and will put the research facility close to treatment facilities in the Medical Center complex, officials said.

from: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...aboration.html

miaht82 · #**672** Posted **May 6, 2009, 5:27 PM**

I'd say we're probably about 10-15 years from taking up all the space that way. Either way, these projects are a good sign of that eventually happening.

KevinFromTexas · #**673** Posted **May 6, 2009, 9:20 PM**

Floresville looks nice. And man, I've been through Karnes City so many times on the way to Corpus Christi.

Schertz1 · #**674** Posted **May 6, 2009, 11:10 PM**

I have family in Karnes City and Yorktown; my mom was actually born in Yorktown.

kornbread · #**675** Posted **May 7, 2009, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by sakyle04

from: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...aboration.html

That's funny. When I first saw the link, I read "local aberration" from the shortened URL.

sakyle04 · #**676** Posted **May 14, 2009, 3:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by kornbread

That's funny. When I first saw the link, I read "local aberration" from the shortened URL.

they've been listening to us.

Paul in S.A TX · #**677** Posted **May 15, 2009, 5:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by maxus

Cool numbers Paul.

Now we see SA as the 28th largest...right? You see it now...?

28th largest metro, not city. Bexar county is the 19th most populous county in the U.S., many ways to measure size. If city rank didn't have any significance, the census woudnt bother ranking cities.

miaht82 · #**678** Posted **May 21, 2009, 2:32 AM**

According to the HDRC agenda: The Zoo is getting a new entrance, Fogo de Chao is trying to get a sign, and the City Hall annex is trying to temporarily be parking and green space.

Also on my drive home today, I noticed a couple of the screens at Mission Theater are gone. Not sure if this has anything to do with how soon the Mission Power plant might start to see some action, but I saw crews carrying things as if they were doing interior demo of the place.

A foundation was poured for the development on Roosevelt/410, small size.
No more exterior work is being done on the Lowes at Goliad, but a bunch of trucks were out front and store is being stocked. I think there is a new hotel behind the Valero and JIB on 410/16, 4 or 5 stories. Drury at Stone Oak is on the 9th floor. I-37 lane expansion is almost complete, and Hot Wells, and New Braunfels overpasses are having "beautification" done to them on top of raising them a few inches.

oldmanshirt · #**679** Posted **May 21, 2009, 5:19 AM**

^ I'm assuming you mean 410/16 south, and not Bandera Rd, right?

miaht82 · #**680** Posted **May 21, 2009, 1:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by oldmanshirt

^ I'm assuming you mean 410/16 south, and not Bandera Rd, right?

Yeah, Poteet Hwy. The differences in the two locations is amazing considering the two are the same distance from DT.