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Downtown Riverwalk
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Booming River North/Museum Reach article

http://www.expressnews.com/news/loca...pid=enpromo#/4







RENDERING: RIVER HOUSE DEVELOPMENT CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION



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By Benjamin Olivo

Newlyweds Marcus Leming and Lena Carpenter recently sidled up to the bar for after-work pints at GS 1221, an upscale beer bar on Broadway. The 30-something couple love the convenience. They live at 1221 Broadway — industrial-style apartments with retail space that includes the bar.

They also live a block from the Museum Reach — a 1.3-mile stretch of the San Antonio River between Lexington Avenue and Josephine Street — where Carpenter jogs regularly.

A few years ago, this stretch of the river was nothing more than a bleak trash-strewn ditch lined with old industrial buildings and gravel lots. In the mid-2000s, $72 million in public money was pumped into this segment of the river. It was transformed into a linear park of landscaped paths and public art, creating a more pleasant urban environment that city leaders hoped would spark construction of apartments and condos, coffee shops and bars — a River Walk for locals.

It took a couple of years after the Museum Reach’s completion in 2009, but development started to bud. Since 2011, nearly 1,000 residential units — mostly apartments — have sprung up in the area. Another 737 units are under construction and likely will be occupied by year’s end.

The total value so far: $254 million in private investment, with an assist of about $25 million in incentives.

“When you talk urban revitalization, this is what it is, and I think to do it so quickly (in this area) speaks a lot,” Carpenter said. “Obviously there is a big appetite for it.”

There's potential for even more development.

Twenty acres of vacant or semi-vacant land in the Museum Reach area is owned by developers with a history of building in the area, including big-hitters James Lifshutz and David Adelman. The area also has drawn interest from outside the city — Austin, Dallas, Indianapolis and Boston.

“I don’t even know who they are,” said Katie Luber, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, which owns 7 acres of mostly vacant land along the stretch. “Realtors call and say 'I have a developer … I have a national developer who wants to come to San Antonio.’”

But as the area continues to blossom, some critics say the infrastructure isn’t keeping pace — the $72 million in river upgrades was a nice start, but what about streets and sidewalks?

Others, meanwhile, warn that the area is developing into a neighborhood accessible only by the upper class.

Most rents are as high as $2 a square foot (the downtown average is about $1.50) — yet occupancy rates hover in the mid-90 percent, indicating a strong demand for the booming area. City officials and developers say they want more diversity in housing, but there’s no signal yet that shows lower rents are coming from the private sector.





CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES AT THE RIVERA, A 300-UNIT APARTMENT PROJECT AT
THE 1100 BLOCK OF BROADWAY NEAR THE MUSEUM REACH OF THE SAN ANTONIO
RIVER WALK.




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Blossoming neighborhood

Around the time the Museum Reach was completed in May 2009, this stretch of the river included some residents, but not many. A condo here, a motel there. At the Pearl, still in its inchoate state, about 20 residential units existed.

A ghost town of concrete slabs — a multifamily project started in 2003 by developer George Geis, but abandoned because of legal troubles — stood ruinous for five years on Broadway just south of Interstate 35. Developer Ed Cross took ownership of the eyesore in 2006 and, along with Adelman, later fleshed out the lattice with 307 apartments. The area’s first big development piece, 1221 Broadway opened in 2011.

Soon after, the Pearl started to take off, eventually adding another 300 units in 2012 along with a flurry of restaurants and shops. Along the river and Broadway came more apartments, a hotel, an office building, and the recycling of an old warehouse into office and restaurant space.

The ditch and dealership row started to look like a neighborhood.

Behind the scenes, the deal-making continues for even more apartments. Word has spread beyond the Texas border about the area’s fertility.

“There is momentum and people seem to like the area,” said Steve Bodner, president of SCB Bodner Co. Inc. of Indianapolis, which is close to purchasing property along the reach. “Pearl looks to be a great developer and (it is) creating some excitement in the community, far and wide.”

In the middle of the reach, Bodner, a third-generation developer, is close to signing a deal for a 1.7-acre riverside parcel once home to the Turner bowling alley. He wants to build 200 apartments there.

“We’re statistically motivated in the development of our projects,” Bodner said. “We looked at a bunch of analytical information that pointed us to San Antonio. We like the River Walk area; it has unfulfilled potential.”

It seems like every parcel — either vacant or not — in the area holds some potential.

“A lot of developers have offered to buy our property,” SAMA director Luber said. The museum’s board has been adamant about preserving its 7 acres, across Jones Avenue from the museum, as green space featuring a sculpture garden.

Dallas developer Alamo Manhattan has plans to build a six-level apartment building on 1.3 acres surrounded by SAMA’s properties. Lifshutz, owner the Blue Star Arts Complex south of downtown, also owns this property, but deflected questions about the project toward Alamo Manhattan, which did not return interview requests.

Lifshutz did confirm he wants to eventually build residential and commercial on 2.5 acres he owns a block east, the former dealership that faces Broadway between Jones and 10th Street.

Just west of the Turner site, Adelman said he wants to build 300 apartments on a 3-acre swath south of the river between Eighth and Ninth streets. On property on Avenue B, behind the KLRN studios, he’s closer to beginning construction on 107 “micro” apartments — smaller, more efficient units.

Without getting specific, Glenn Huddleston, a developer who specializes in commercial space in Alamo Heights, would like to build some kind of residential development on a square block he mostly owns across from the lock and dam.

“It’s been overlooked, the lock and dam,” Huddleston said. “I’d like to come up with a project that really takes advantage of that … it would be mixed-use project with a residential component.”

North of I-35, Pearl developer Silver Ventures owns all of the riverfront property west of the river — from Newell Avenue to West Grayson Street — and said in an email the group continues to explore development options, but has no concrete plans.

“All options are on the table right now,” Bill Shown, Silver Ventures’ managing director, said in an email.


TREES ARE MARKED BEFORE DEVELOPMENT BEGINS AT AN EMPTY LOT AT
111 WEST JONES AVENUE ALONG THE MUSEUM REACH OF THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER WALK.




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Will incentives last?

Aside from the Museum Reach, the city’s incentives policy is credited with the area’s rebirth.

Most of the area’s developments received an Easter basket of incentives that at the time included cash. The downtown-wide policy was revamped in 2012 — partly because of criticism over the grants, partly to streamline the process — and the Center City Housing Incentive Policy was born.

The CCHIP doles out property tax reimbursement grants in 10-to-15-year increments, city and San Antonio Water System waivers, among other carrots.

When it was announced, city officials described the program as a kickstarter. Someday, they said, incentives will not be necessary because the market would reach a point where it’s less risky for banks and other investors to loan money.

Some developers, however, say “don’t stop at 1,700 units.” That number is a smidgen of the 10,000 units the Museum Reach needs to become a true neighborhood.

“We’re not there yet,” Adelman said. “Our community will get the development that you sort of push for, and a big component of what the incentive does is it redirects the interest from the sprawl that we’ve experienced into the inner city.”

The program expires in June 2016. In a couple of months, the city’s Center City Development Office will look at the market to determine whether to strengthen, leave as is, scale back or zap parts of program.

“Until we have a San Antonio study to show us the market rate and whether or not we hit the tipping point, we don’t want to make any major amendments,” CCDO director Lori Houston said.

Whether that means the incentives for the Museum Reach will be scaled back, because it’s doing far better than any other downtown district, will depend on the results of the study. Of the three projects in the works — by Alamo Manhattan, SCB Bodner and Adelman — none has yet applied for incentives, Houston said.

“The assessment will look at each target area and provide an analysis that shows the revised financial gap based on the rents, construction cost, land values, and other market conditions,” Houston said.

The river has plenty of vacant parcels left that could be developed. Beyond the river in all directions are even more parcels and older buildings that could be repurposed. Adelman said 10,000 units in the area will begin to draw the attention of a grocer, the sign of a real neighborhood. It’s an amenity the area’s current residents say is lacking.

It will be easier to drive to Central Market on Broadway, some residents say, than traverse downtown proper to get to the store H-E-B is in the process of planning on South Flores and East César E. Chávez Boulevard.


VIEW OF THE MUSEUM REACH IN RIVER NORTH FROM A HILTON HOTEL



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Streets, sidewalks

What’s also lacking, developers say, is infrastructure. The $72 million spent on the Museum Reach was catalytic, but few public dollars have been spent on streets and sidewalks.

Broadway remains a race track, and the ancillary streets and sidewalks still flood.

Part of the city’s plan is to turn Broadway, from Third Street up to Cunningham Avenue, into a pedestrian-friendly street.

“You’re turning it into more of a neighborhood street as opposed to a major thoroughfare,” said Pat DiGiovanni, president and CEO of Centro San Antonio. “Not to be confused with a local street, like you’re in a single-family neighborhood. The right-of-way remains the same, but you’re introducing wider sidewalks, introducing trees, places for bikes, places for parking, for transit as well.”

DiGiovanni estimates that project alone could cost $15 to $20 million. Broadway should work in tandem with the Museum Reach in order for the area to reach its full potential, he said.

“If you go out and look, there’s a great deal of infill development,” DiGiovanni said. “There’s a lot of developable land there that could shatter the 10,000-unit goal. But public infrastructure has to keep pace with the private investment.”

One misstep in the area’s planning has been the execution of the tax increment reinvestment zone, DiGiovanni said.

In a TIRZ, revenue generated from the rise in property taxes is collected and put back into the area. Tax abatements, however, neuter this funding mechanism. Such is the case with the area’s residential projects, which produce no revenue because of the abatements.

DiGiovanni, a former deputy city manager, suggests the city float bonds to pay for the Broadway upgrades now. Such a move would amplify the rate of development, he said. When the tax abatements expire — many of which will in about 10 to 12 years — the revenue can be used to pay back the debt.

City officials say they aren’t investigating the strategy, at least for Broadway.

“We had looked at some of that a few years back and it didn’t seem to work at that point in time,” said Ben Gorzell, the city’s chief financial officer. “One of the challenges you have, particularly in that area — once they issue the debt on Day 1, we start incurring interest costs.”

Houston said other funding options include taking a slice from the 2017 bond program.
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URBAN CORE DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY


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There are 23 residential developments, within the urban core, that are either under construction or will break ground in the next six months. These are those 23 developments.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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City Vista - 142 units

The Cellars - 102 units

Tobin Lofts (Phase II) - 107 units

East Quincy Townhomes - 25 units

The River House - 261 units

1130 Broadway - 300 units

McCullough Lofts - 107 units

Henry Terrell Building - 10 units

Eilan Riverwalk - 350 units

Peanut Factory - 98 units

Big Tex - 336 units

The Park at Lone Star - 28



Total: 1,866 units under construction




UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITHIN SIX MONTHS


The 840 - 47 units

The vitre - 242 units

111 W Jones - 205 units

Sojo Crossing - 27 units

307 Dwyer - 272 units

Merchant Ice Lofts - 230 units

Lavaca Townhomes - 4 units

Water Street - 210-250 units

Southtown Flats - 212 units

St. John's redevelopment - 250 units

Misson Park - 345 units


Total: 2,044 - 2,084 units under construction within six months
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A few renderings and photos of some of the developments.


City Vista

http://www.mysanantonio.com/real_est...#photo-4818897


The Cellars





Tobin Lofts (Phase II)



East Quincy Townhomes
http://eastquincysa.com/


The River House - 261 units


1130 Broadway - 300 units



McCullough Lofts
- 107 units

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=213189

Henry Terrell Building Timeshare Apartments


http://www.urbantonio.com/projects/p...rrell-building
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Hemisfair Redevelopment
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San Antonio Scorpions NASL stadium


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More Downtown area projects waiting approval or UC.

Residential Southtown




Residential River North 111 West Jones





St Paul Square project
http://www.expressnews.com/business/...6074000.php#/0


The Phipps Office bldg River North complete.



SoJo Crossing River North



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The Roosevelt -Southtown Area -Downtown
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The Vitre @ Cattleman Square West End-CBD I-35
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LANDMARK CENTRE UPDATE

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The Landmark development in far northwest San Antonio (SE corner of 1604/10) has been renamed as Landmark Centre and the renderings for the first midrise office building have been revealed.

Landmark One is a six story office building with an attached five story parking garage. Future plans call for two other similar sized office buildings to be built adjacent to Landmark One and the parking garage. Landmark Two and Landmark Three.

As mentioned in a previous post, plans also call for 900 residential units, currently under construction and a multi-story hotel with attached parking structure.


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SSFCU TO BUILD NEW HQ CAMPUS ON FAR NORTHWEST SIDE

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Security Service Federal Credit Union has announced plans to build their new headquarters at I-10 and Hausman Rd. SSFCU purchased approximately 66 acres from Santikos Real Estate earlier this year.

President, Jim Laffoon commented, "As a growing enterprise we are delighted to acquire this property in such a rapidly developing part of the city. With several business units currently in leased facilities, development of a campus on this site will allow us the ability to consolidate our back office operations for many years to come."





Existing HQ
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THE DWELL AT LEGACY BREAKS GROUND

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The Dwell at Legacy, an 8-acre, 289-unit apartment project by Embrey Partners, is scheduled to open June 2015 at The Legacy, the retail center at the northeast corner of Loop 1604 and U.S. 281. Developer Santikos Real Estate Services hopes the apartments, which will include one- and two-bedroom units ranging in size from 500 to 1,200 square feet, complement the tenants — including Best Buy, Main Event, Life Time Fitness, Spec's and Stone Street Pub & Grill — already doing business at the 100-acre Legacy.






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[QUOTE=scraperfetish;6892999]Funny that you mentioned the HDRC. My sister-in-law works on for the Historical Preservation Society and we "get into it" about this all the time. My sentiment is that San Antonio is a WONDERFUL city with so much potential. That said, tall buildings downtown would not take away from San Antonio's sexiness, but enhance it. Honestly, it's not like San Antonio is the most "historical" city in the U.S. It's not even the oldest, although being founded in the late 1600s by the Portuguese is pretty impressive.

Anyway, top-tier cities like Boston, New York, San Fran, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Philly, New York, Chicago, LA, ATL, Miami (Toronto, Montreal) and a whole host of others worldwide have as many or more historical buildings and sites, yet they are not afraid to "scrape." Those charming buildings (including the Alamo) in SA's core will be just as charming with gorgeous modern megaliths gracing adjacent "cityspaces." As an added bonus, we may enjoy a bit more shade downtown during the summer months also.




Downtown San Antonio does have strict regulations that have blocked the construction of several ultra modern skyscraper proposals. Hopefully the proposed iconic skyscrapers in the works will change the face of downtown for the better. And I couldn't agree with you more, cities like Boston, Philly, Chicago, SF and of course NYC are great examples of having both plenty of historic landmarks and ultra modern architecture, but the other cities you listed are much less historical and some have far less historical building stock than, San Antonio.

I am looking forward to see how things change over the next few years. The city claims it's the " Decade of Downtown." I hope it is as far as skyscraper development goes.
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Downtown San Antonio does have strict regulations that have blocked the construction of several ultra modern skyscraper proposals. Hopefully the proposed iconic skyscrapers in the works will change the face of downtown for the better. And I couldn't agree with you more, cities like Boston, Philly, Chicago, SF and of course NYC are great examples of having both plenty of historic landmarks and ultra modern architecture, but the other cities you listed are much less historical and some have far less historical building stock than, San Antonio.

I am looking forward to see how things change over the next few years. The city claims it's the " Decade of Downtown." I hope it is as far as skyscraper development goes.
Paul, I totally agree and thanks for keeping the SATX post alive. I'm also looking for some good things to come out of the "Decade of Downtown" initiative. Say, with that regard, have you received any fresh intel on the new Frost Bank Headquarters that reputedly will change the face of the downtown skyline?
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Paul, I totally agree and thanks for keeping the SATX post alive. I'm also looking for some good things to come out of the "Decade of Downtown" initiative. Say, with that regard, have you received any fresh intel on the new Frost Bank Headquarters that reputedly will change the face of the downtown skyline?
Sirkingwilliam who frequents the San Antonio room would be the better source on S.A.'s projects and construction.
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21 Story Hotel & Adjacent residential tower planned for central Riverwalk.
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305-UNIT, 6-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING PLANNED FOR RIVER NORTH DOWNTOWN.
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Peanut factory Lofts Update.

The Birdsong Peanut Factory operated from 1912 until 1986, where it sat vacant until the building was purchased by the 210 Development Group.The Peanut Factory Lofts — located on the site of a defunct peanut processing plant — is a 98-unit residential project that's expected to dedicate more than half of its rooms to student housing. The roughly $10 million project at 1025 S. Frio St. is about half a mile from the University of Texas at San Antonio's downtown campus.

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2020 S. A. Pop 1.59 million/ Metro 2.64 million/ASA corridor 5 million Census undercount city proper. San Antonio economy and largest economic sectors. Annual contribution towards GDP. U.S. DOD$48.5billion/Manufacturing $40.5 billion/Healthcare-Biosciences $40 billion/Finance-Insurance $20 billion/Tourism $15 billion/ Technology $10 billion. S.A./ Austin: Tech $25 billion/Manufacturing $11 billion/ Tourism $9 billion.
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2020 S. A. Pop 1.59 million/ Metro 2.64 million/ASA corridor 5 million Census undercount city proper. San Antonio economy and largest economic sectors. Annual contribution towards GDP. U.S. DOD$48.5billion/Manufacturing $40.5 billion/Healthcare-Biosciences $40 billion/Finance-Insurance $20 billion/Tourism $15 billion/ Technology $10 billion. S.A./ Austin: Tech $25 billion/Manufacturing $11 billion/ Tourism $9 billion.
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San Pedro Creek Project -- Very nice!!!

The "Tree of Life" at the culmination point of the creek offers an interesting allusion to the "Tree of Life" as recorded in the books of Genesis and Revelation. Also the tree's resemblance to St. Louis' Gateway Arch is clever.

Wow! So many exciting changes in store for this wonderful city!

Click on the YouTube link below. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=KOUnJFC17aw

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Thanks for the updates Paul! Beautiful photos too.
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Lots of nice projects going on.
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Turner Bowling alley site (220) unit River North 120 9th Street.


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