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Coming soon: San Antonio-area movie theater ready for second act

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For years almost 50 years, the Rainbow Theater in Castroville has been closed, but a local group of families will bring the movie theater back to life.

The Elsass group is renovating the Rainbow Theater in Castroville, which was built in 1943. If all goes as planned, the movie theater reopens in December.

"We are very excited about having that come together and it is one more thing we are doing to try and strengthen the downtown historic core," said Joshua Kempf with The Elsass. "We've had some awesome feedback from the community about how there's so little to for young people to do in town and this brings something for kids and families to do in the downtown."

Kempf said the plans for the Rainbow Theater, located on Paris Street, will return the space to a working movie theater and a music venue. All of the original seats were taken out, so the group will be putting in around 200 new seats in the one screen theater, he says. The theater will show first-run movies.

Architect Brantley Hightower has been hired to work on the renovation. There currently is no concession stand area, so one with a bar for drinks will be added, and the ticket booth area will be refreshed as well.

"It has the original projectors from the 1940s in there, but obviously that's not what we are going to be using. We are working on installing state-of-the-art speakers, screens, projectors, and all that good stuff," Kempf said.

The Elsass is a group of 35 local families that pooled their money together to purchase buildings in the downtown area with the goal of preserving the history and revitalizing the area. He said the lease has just been signed and the architectural work is still being processed, so a final estimated price tag is not yet available.

"The idea is to bring back life to downtown Castroville, which has been dormant for a long time. Some buildings have sat for at least 30 years underutilized," Kempf says.

On of the projects the organization has worked on is the former Castroville News Bulletin building, which is on Fiorella Street.

"The renovation to bring back the Rainbow Theater almost 45 years after it closed is just another fruit of the community coming together. It’s one more of many initiatives that will strengthen our downtown historic core and continue to improve our little town," said Castrovile Mayor Darrin Schroeder.
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See how Brooks' booming growth has changed the landscape of Southside San Antonio

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Brooks is becoming a booming hub for retail, restaurants, manufacturing, and housing. But it wasn't always this way. The early 20th century airfield turned Air Force base only started the transformation when it U.S. government ordered it closed in the mid-90s.

On June 8, the South Texas Business Partnership held a luncheon to laud Brooks still ongoing and steadfast development. Although Brooks City Base, now known as just Brooks, began in 2002, representatives of the Southside development at interstate highways 37 and 410 put that growth into numbers from 2012, a year after all military operations stopped, to 2022.








Brooks was such a missed opportunity. It could have been a Southside Downtown, but is being developed as a suburb with amazon distribution centers. Such a shame.
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USAA Real Estate and Houston firm partner to buy 125 acres of vacant land near Rolling Oaks Mall

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A company linked to USAA Real Estate and another Texas real estate firm has purchased about 125 acres of vacant land just south of Rolling Oaks Mall on San Antonio’s Northeast Side.

CanAm 1604 LLC, a company affiliated with San Antonio-based USAA Real Estate, and Houston-based Patrinely Group bought the acreage this month from Babcock Road 165 Ltd., according to county property records and state corporate filings.
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San Antonio residents sign petitions against Helotes apartment development

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The commissioners court delayed approval of the plans for the Ranch Creek Apartments in the Helotes are after hearing the homeowners concerns. However, County Public Works Director Renee Green told the court that the plans for the apartments have met engineering requirements, so they received staff approval. The City of Helotes has also approved the plans and the Texas Department of Transportation approved the traffic impact analysis.
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San Antonio residents sign petitions against Helotes apartment development

https://www.mysanantonio.com/realest...n-17398074.php

The commissioners court delayed approval of the plans for the Ranch Creek Apartments in the Helotes are after hearing the homeowners concerns. However, County Public Works Director Renee Green told the court that the plans for the apartments have met engineering requirements, so they received staff approval. The City of Helotes has also approved the plans and the Texas Department of Transportation approved the traffic impact analysis.
"They also expressed how it would be disruptive toward the bats, salamanders, hogs, deer, and other wildlife that live in the area."

Idk, Helotes is a pretty unique and a sensitive zone. I for one could do without mixed-use developments in the hills.... My family has lived out there for 40 years (in the sticks) and it's changed quite a bit...not for the better.
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"They also expressed how it would be disruptive toward the bats, salamanders, hogs, deer, and other wildlife that live in the area."

Idk, Helotes is a pretty unique and a sensitive zone. I for one could do without mixed-use developments in the hills.... My family has lived out there for 40 years (in the sticks) and it's changed quite a bit...not for the better.
Yet increase impervious cover with thousands of acres of tract housing subdivisions and no one bats an eye.
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If they cared, they would move somewhere else themselves, and let land return to nature. Since they are not, they are NIMBYs NIMBYing.

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One of the reasons that the Alaskan Oil Pipeline ( a tremendous project)was built elevated into the air was that so, it would not interfere with migratory species like Elk , Reindeer , etc. It was done this was way so that these animals could migrate underneath the thing and, it worked.
Now that the Alaskan permafrost is rapidly melting due to climate change these giant concrete bases and steel support structures which hold the huge pipeline up in the air are cracking and the thing is collapsing and dangerously leaning over to one side or the other.
This Helotes project is Disruptive to feral pigs?
[QUOTE=ahealy;9714466]"They also expressed how it would be disruptive toward the bats, salamanders, hogs, deer, and other wildlife that live in the area."

Idk, Helotes is a pretty unique and a sensitive zone.
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Yet increase impervious cover with thousands of acres of tract housing subdivisions and no one bats an eye.
Yeah, not a better solution by any means. I kinda just wish there was very little housing out there in general.

I'd take a few 15 story LEED certified towers instead I suppose...but that ain't happening.
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New Braunfels’ incoming river resort raises flood worries

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Cabins and RVs soon could fill a 35-acre plot of land on the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, but the area’s history of flooding has some neighbors concerned about safety.

The resort will be to the west of the Rockin R’ River Rides headquarters on Gruene Road and is being established by the company’s new and former owners.

About 13 acres of the property sits in the Guadalupe River floodway, and almost 4 acres of it is in the 100-year floodplain. Building in either comes with extra requirements for owners, such as building structures on pillars, establishing an evacuation plan, and conducting a flood study to ensure that anything built on the property won’t impede the flow of water.

A floodplain is any land susceptible to being inundated by floodwaters. Floodways are within a floodplain. They are the closest to a water source and have to be regulated by cities or counties. It is the area where water flows fastest and deepest.
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Speaking of flooding,

I stopped in at the R.V. park in Bandera just downhill from downtown Bandera on Texas F.M. 16. I think the name was Pioneer but I am not sure. So. I asked about a price on a rental spot for an R.V. Sure they immediately said but they cannot guarantee the R.V. will be there if a rainstorm were to come.
These were two ladies in their sixties and they recounted what had happened in Bandera during the last violent rainstorm. Every last R.V. that had been parked there was swept away by storm water, never to be seen again.
"We will try to call you if you if a storm is on its' way but if you cannot be here to get the R.V. out ahead of the storm, it may be swept away." After all of this explanation was done, they gave me a flyer about the Park.[QUOTE=kingkirbythe....;9720836]New Braunfels’ incoming river resort raises flood worries

https://www.expressnews.com/business...d-17415801.php

Cabins and RVs soon could fill a 35-acre plot of land on the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, but the area’s history of flooding has some neighbors concerned about safety.



About 13 acres of the property sits in the Guadalupe River floodway, and almost 4 acres of it is in the 100-year floodplain. Building in either comes with extra requirements for owners, such as building structures on pillars, establishing an evacuation plan, and conducting a flood study to ensure that anything built on the property won’t impede the flow of water.
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Atlanta company to build 154 rental townhomes in San Antonio

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An Atlanta-based company has begun construction on 154 built-to-rent townhomes, a booming segment of the U.S. property market.

RangeWater Real Estate said the homes off Loop 1604 and O’Connor Road in north San Antonio will average 1,600 square feet and include plans with three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms.

The 16.5-acre community, named Caliza at the Loop, will have a clubhouse, pool, grilling area, playground, and fitness and business centers for residents. It’s unclear what rents will be.

Caliza at the Loop is RangeWater’s second project in San Antonio.

Last year the company bought Aspen Heights, a 284-unit student housing complex at 12839 Berthoud Lane, which it is converting into general rental housing called the Cottages at Leon Creek.
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Baptist Health System has begun clearing a sizable portion of a 72-acre site in San Antonio’s Westover Hills area where it plans to build a medical campus anchored by a new hospital to accommodate anticipated population growth. New details on the system's landmark project have just emerged.

Westover Hills Baptist Hospital will have five floors and is designed for a multifloor expansion at a cost of roughly $230 million. The facility is expected to create more than 500 jobs.
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I'll say,

I know what you mean....I lived on the northwest side since Loop 410 and Ingram Rd. was all wildlife. Cattle, Roadrunners and cactus. Hell, we used to race our sixties muscle cars on the southbound service drive between Ingram and Culebra Rds. so sparsely was that area populated.
Statistically, unfortunately, only when there is economic growth- is it called, progress. Otherwise a stagnant economy is declared and we are all in a recession. I am sure a lot of wealth was created for Pulte Homes or whoever developed the Alamo Ranch area out there.
Right there at the intersection of FM 471 and Loop 1604 sat an ancient gas station with wooden floors and walls. The floors had a hollow, squeaky sound when you walked upon them. A set of old abandoned gas pumps with the tall glass globes which were pumped full of gasolene by a gas jockey upon purchase of stated gallons: back from in the thirties I would guess, still stood @ about 8 ft. high. The last stop before Medina Lake I suppose during those old times. Inside were snacks, Big Red and beer, etc. NO gas was sold there in modern times, it was a convenience store only. I wished the old gas station still stood there but that piece of real estate was too valuable I know.
The old relic was torn down and a Jim's burger stand sits there now.
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Yeah, not a better solution by any means. I kinda just wish there was very little housing out there in general.

I'd take a few 15 story LEED certified towers instead I suppose...but that ain't happening.
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Creating ‘our future,’ Castroville looks to shape the sprawl and preserve its heritage

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Les Tschirhart’s ancestors arrived in Texas in 1845, and today he lives on the land near Castroville that has been in his family for 135 years. The home his great grandfather built is now the local chamber of commerce office.

At age 83, he and wife Patsy still speak the language of those early pioneers from Alsace. If they could see Castroville now, “they would think it’s something,” Tschirhart said laughing.

In the next three years, more homes and businesses will be built in Castroville and the surrounding farmlands — in six active developments with at least 2,500 homes and another 200 acres of commercial development — than in the 178 years since the town’s founding.

That concerns Darrin Schroeder, the first-term mayor of the picturesque town west of San Antonio, as the boundary between Castroville and the fast-growing far West Side of San Antonio becomes blurred.

He revealed those construction numbers at a recent town hall meeting, inviting area residents with a letter stating that these structures will be the “visual backdrop of our lives and will outlast us by many generations.”

Already, islands of asphalt-shingled roofs are spreading across what was once fertile farmland to supply an ever-increasing demand for housing. At least 15 suburban neighborhoods are in various stages of development to the north and south of U.S. Highway 90 West. Multifamily complexes are also growing.

Commercial and retail development has followed. A Walmart Supercenter opened in 2017 and a national hotel chain is planning to build nearby.

The problem of urban sprawl is nothing new to bedroom communities in Bexar County, along Interstate 10 toward Boerne and along Interstate 35 heading north to New Braunfels and Austin — one of the fastest-growing corridors in the nation.

As more and more developers acquire land around Castroville, Schroeder and council members feel a sense of urgency to get ahead of the sprawl by knowing what to require from developers. “We have a small window to take charge of our destiny,” he wrote in a recent letter to residents.
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What might have become of the midtown real estate was a motivating factor for the Hill Country developer.

Sandstone Developments plans to redevelop the former Ranch Motel, built more than 70 years ago, into a new 26-room boutique hotel. The Hill Country developer, which has an office in New Orleans, also plans to transform adjoining site at Broadway and Mulberry Avenue land once home to the Kiddie Park, into new entertainment space.....

Seidman’s group has been involved in multiple boutique hotel projects, including the Saint Vincent in New Orleans and the Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa, among others. He hasn’t settled on a name yet for the San Antonio project, but he expects to incorporate the iconic Ranch Motel sign facing Broadway.

Along with interior and exterior improvements, a new landscaped pool and bar area is part of the planned Alamo City makeover. While Seidman did not disclose the cost of the redevelopment, he did say it’s a multimillion-dollar project.

The idea, he said, is to create an “urban retreat” for locals and visitors. “It's going to be quite the transformation.”
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Tesla expands Texas footprint with new deal for 440,000-square-foot warehouse

By Ramzi Abou Ghalioum and James McCandless – San Antonio Business Journal
Oct 28, 2022 Updated Oct 31, 2022, 1:08pm CDT

Tesla's Far East Side lease affords convenient access to the I-35 corridor, between San Antonio and Austin.
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“Every new brand that lands in our region creates a multiplier effect if we engage and stay aggressive," said Mayor Ron Nirenberg.

Tesla cinched up San Antonio's biggest industrial lease last quarter, closing on a 440,000-square-foot Far East Side space that further solidifies the city's emerging prominence in the electric vehicle market.

The car maker is the sole occupant of 7015 Lancer Boulevard, part of Foster Ridge Park, a master planned industrial facility completed in 2021 by Indiana-based Becknell Industrial. Tesla's footprint accounts for 30 of the 90 development acres planned for the project.


Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) began leasing the property in August, inking a five-year deal that expires in June 2027, according to data provided by real estate research firm CoStar Group. The company is paying a base rent of $5.50 per-square-foot, around $2.4 million per year.

The massive lease from one of the country's largest companies continues a trend of intense demand for industrial space in San Antonio. The third quarter saw 1.2 million square feet of positive net absorption, according to data from CBRE, and the 8.7 million square feet of net absorption year-to-date marks an all-time high. Asking rents for warehouse and distribution space have grown 16.8% year-over-year, while the vacant rate in the industrial market has dropped to 4% — down from 15% in 2020.

Representatives for Cavender Hill Properties Inc., who brokered the lease, declined to offer details about the transaction, citing a nondisclosure agreement. A source close to the transaction told the Business Journal under condition of anonymity that the space was being used as a warehouse for manufacturing components supporting Tesla's gigafactory in Austin.

Representatives for Tesla did not respond to a request for comment, and representatives for Becknell Industrial declined to provide a comment.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently indicated that the electric vehicle manufacturer would ramp up production at its Austin gigafactory, even in the face of a potential global recession. The company had about $21 billion in cash and short-term investments as of the end of September.

Shortly after Tesla announced that Austin would be the site of a $1.1 billion dollar manufacturing facility for its Cybertruck, Semi and Model Y vehicles in 2020, San Antonio officials confirmed negotiations were ongoing to help support the company's operations in Texas.

“No deal comes in a vacuum,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said at the time. “Every new brand that lands in our region creates a multiplier effect if we engage and stay aggressive.”

San Antonio's East Side is a popular area for industrial facilities, granting access to major interstates including Interstate 35, which leads to Austin. Kansas City, Missouri-based NorthPoint Development is building Foster Commerce Center, a $230 million, 2.2 million-square foot industrial park set to bring 1,000 permanent jobs and 950 construction jobs to San Antonio.
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Local developer targets high-income renters in latest addition to San Antonio's red-hot Loop 1604 corridor...

The project is Casey's fifth multifamily development in the San Antonio area and will include a five-story primary building and a four-story secondary building. The company has owned the land since 2017; a purchase price was not disclosed, but a deed of trust shows a loan from $2.8 million originating from San Antonio-based BHA Financial LP.
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The development will include a noted chef and backers say it will have a resort-like feel.


By W. Scott Bailey – Senior Reporter, San Antonio Business Journal
Jan 25, 2023

The Springhill Suites by Marriott at River Village is expected to cost more than $40 million to construct and could help the historic city some 30 miles north of San Antonio grab a larger share of travel business stakeholders believe is on the rebound.

Work on the new hotel, which will span some 136,000 square feet and house more than 140 rooms, is expected to begin in the third or fourth quarter of this year on a site south of Highway 46, tucked between Interstate 35 and one of the state's more popular waterways. The seven-story hotel is expected to be completed by early 2025, which will put its opening roughly five years after the outbreak of Covid-19, a virus that put the industry in a tailspin.
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