SAN ANTONIO | Vidorra | 292 FT / 89 M | 20 FLOORS

Schertz1 · #1 Posted **Sep 3, 2007, 1:42 AM**

Name: Vidorra
Height: 20 floors
Start: 2006
Finish: 2008
Groundbreaking: 12/15/06.
Location: 215 Center Street
Borough: Downtown
District: St. Paul Square
Website:http://vidorraliving.com/
Emporis link: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=...antonio-tx-usa

Rendering:

Schertz1 · #2 Posted **Sep 3, 2007, 1:44 AM**

FastFerrari82 · #3 Posted **Sep 3, 2007, 5:55 AM**

nice...wish i was still in town..however i did visit the website a saw some august progress...check out my thread on skyscrapercity...FastFerrari the name...check out my other thread too!!

starvinggryphon · #4 Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 12:58 PM**

Any clue as to when ground breaks on tower II?

KevinFromTexas · #5 Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 1:13 PM**

Very nice. Already up to the 1st floor, working on the 2nd. That's some very nice progress considering the crane just went up a little more than a month ago.

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Originally Posted by starvinggryphon

Any clue as to when ground breaks on tower II?

According to SAguy's post in the Vidorra thread in the Texas section:

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Originally Posted by SAguy

This was in Friday's paper-

The Vidorra I is the first phase of the Vidorra high-rise residential complex near Sunset Station. When complete, tower one will be a 292-foot structure with 20 floors of apartments. Both towers will provide about 300 units, with a combined 670,000 square feet of space. The Vidorra will be equipped with a private fitness center, two swimming pools, a spa room, business center, private clubroom, rooftop garden, guest suites, full-time concierge service and other amenities. Units will average about $450,000. Tower one is more than 50 percent sold. Once tower one is 75 percent sold, tower two will begin.

Construction completion for tower one: End of 2008

Anyone have that article handy? The article is from August 10th of this year. I tried searching for it at mySA.com. I found it, but I'm not registered with the newspaper, so maybe one of you guys from San Antonio could post it? Just type in vidorra in the 'MySA keyword' search field. That will pull it up.

Complex01 · #6 Posted **Sep 5, 2007, 6:15 PM**

Oh nice nice. Thanxs for the pics...

Schertz1 · #7 Posted **Sep 16, 2007, 3:34 AM**

15 SEP 07

sirkingwilliam · #8 Posted **Sep 16, 2007, 4:20 AM**

It funny how Vidorra seems to be ahead of Vistana when Vistana started construction way before Vidorra. Also, did Vidorra go through a name change?

ydoc14 · #9 Posted **Sep 16, 2007, 4:27 PM**

Hey Schertz, did you not turn around and take a picture of that one building across the highway?

FastFerrari82 · #10 Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 6:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam

It funny how Vidorra seems to be ahead of Vistana when Vistana started construction way before Vidorra. Also, did Vidorra go through a name change?

ur right...Vistana had a lil jump start on Vidorra...im not an expert but the Vidorra is smaller...so who knows...both projects goin at the same time looks nice..with all the cranes now...ne news on the other tower...hope sales go good...would be nice to have another set of twin towers in SA

FastFerrari82 · #11 Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 6:42 AM**

if they would have built this on lot that used to be courts at I37 @ Durango..this would make a betta pic moment from coming north on I37...imho

21bl0wed · #12 Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 5:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam

It funny how Vidorra seems to be ahead of Vistana when Vistana started construction way before Vidorra. Also, did Vidorra go through a name change?

Thats because they had to demo a small bank that was on the Vistana site.

KevinFromTexas · #13 Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 11:44 PM**

Thanks for the update, Schertz1.

METALMiKE · #14 Posted **Sep 20, 2007, 9:19 PM**

A cool rendering from their website.

I Like it.

JACKinBeantown · #15 Posted **Sep 21, 2007, 3:52 AM**

Not nearly as cool as the original, but it's certainly OK.

KevinFromTexas · #16 Posted **Sep 21, 2007, 3:56 AM**

Good find with the rendering.

FastFerrari82 · #17 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 2:57 AM**

jus found out that they are close to completing the 3 floor....ne pics to back it up

NBTX11 · #18 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 4:05 AM**

Why couldn't they have added just 5 more floors to this project. It would have greatly improved design. And why build 2, instead of building one huge tower. Oh well, complaining isn't going to do any good. Thanks, historic design committe

METALMiKE · #19 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 10:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Good find with the rendering.

Thanks.

kornbread · #20 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 11:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by NBTX11

Why couldn't they have added just 5 more floors to this project. It would have greatly improved design. And why build 2, instead of building one huge tower. Oh well, complaining isn't going to do any good. Thanks, historic design committe

Because they may never build the second tower. They've been saying they are just over 50% sold for over a year. Remember, they supposedly broke ground last December and at that point they were supposed to be 60% sold.

It's not the HDRC, it's demand for that kind of housing. If there was enough demand someone would build to meet it.