San Antonio Spurs Arena and Missions Baseball Stadium Downtown

[The Model]

If you look at my photos for the baseball location. There is no existing structures on the property. The baseball stadium is not displacing the soap work people. In fact there a good chance the baseball stadium gets completed and the soap works are still there. The soap works are part of a future development that will compliment the stadium. From what I am hearing the soap works residents have a lot of time still to relocate. This will not be a 1968 Hemisfair situation where police grab residents and pull them away from their house a bulldozer comes in right after that to level the house.

[jaga185]

Originally Posted by The Model

This will not be a 1968 Hemisfair situation where police grab residents and pull them away from their house a bulldozer comes in right after that to level the house.

A little off topic but I was watching a documentary on youtube regarding that and it was so sad to hear. I'm glad the soap factory people have waaaaay more time and it's not their own property they have to vacate.

But at the same time, I want this to happen too. I hate seeing two sides of the coin sometimes.

[Spoiler]

The situations aren't comparable. Hemisfair was a monkey's paw arrangement where San Antonio gets a world's fair but must sacrifice a huge part of its urban essence. Soap Factory is a market-rate apartment complex, not even subsidized housing. Tenants will have the opportunity to find comparable housing elsewhere. But the developers were stupid because they should have realized that displacement is a very sensitive issue here. They should have been much more communicative with the apartment tenants.