San Antonio City Council unanimously approved a $2.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2017 Thursday morning that includes increased funding for streets and sidewalks, more police officers, increased minimum wages for City employees, benefits for Council aides, funding for new Smart City initiatives, and a more aggressive commitment to the City’s new comprehensive master plan, […]
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City Council Considers Expanding Vacant Building Program
Sixty-five properties out of 338 vacant structures identified under the City’s vacant building registration program have been improved for habitability or marketability, according to Shanon Shea Miller, director of the City’s Office of Historic Preservation (OHP). One example of success Miller noted during her briefing to City Council members is David Adelman, founder of AREA […]
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After Pilot Program’s First Year, San Antonio’s Vacant Building Count Drops
One year after the launch of the City’s Vacant Building Registration Pilot Program in the Central Business District and surrounding historic districts, the director of the Office of Historic Preservation said there has been a substantial reduction of vacant buildings and mandated improvements to vacant buildings that owners have registered. There are few absolute numbers available one year after City Council […]
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Vacant Building Ordinance Could Be Game Changer
City Council threw its unified support Thursday behind a comprehensive program to address the urban core’s hundreds of vacant buildings that range from historic downtown landmarks to abandoned inner-city homes. Amid such Council support not seen on many other downtown initiatives, the prevailing sentiment seemed to be a desire to see the program succeed and […]
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City to Vote on ‘Long Overdue’ Vacant Buildings Ordinance
The City of San Antonio took a big step forward Wednesday toward implementing a major pilot project to address the problem of vacant buildings and residences in the center city and historic neighborhoods. An ordinance approving the pilot project will be voted on by City Council at its June 12 meeting. City Council, with Mayor […]
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Nearly 500 Vacant Buildings ID’d in Pilot Program’s First 90 Days
Three months after the City’s new Vacant Building Ordinance went into effect on Jan. 1, 380 property owners in the central business district and in various historic districts have received letters from the City’s Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) putting them on notice to register their buildings in the City’s Vacant Building Registration Pilot Program. Another […]
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Exploring San Antonio’s ‘Exploding Urban Core’
How badly do more people want to live and work in downtown San Antonio? When USAA Real Estate Company purchased One Riverwalk Place, one of downtown’s three Class A office towers, it had enough space to bring 150 USAA employees into the building. All but 50 of the slots were assigned by the parent company, and […]
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Vacant River Walk Properties Put In Play
Marshall Davidson Jr. and his team at KMD Studley, a commercial real estate brokerage firm, have assembled some of the downtown River Walk’s last vacant properties and adjacent parcels and are shopping them to a national audience of developers. They’ve bundled a portfolio of six previously unavailable properties controlled by five different owners to create the […]
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City Approves ‘Compassionate’ Building Demolition Procedures
It has been about 10 months since Roberto Treviño took office as then-interim District 1 council member in San Antonio. On his first day on the job, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, he was notified that Guadalupe and Miguel Calzada’s Beacon Hill home would soon be demolished. It was deemed a safety hazard by the City. […]
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Zoning Decisions Result in Approval of Lavaca Apartments, Protection of Toudouze Building
City Council voted in favor of at least two different measures that impact the City’s Southtown and South Side neighborhoods.
