AltWeeklies Wire
Cityscrapes: One More Hotelnew
Just one more hotel, and the city will boom. That has long been the mantra of this city’s business and political leaders. With her decision to support a new hotel tower atop the Joske’s building, City Manager Sheryl Sculley has now joined the crowd, fully backed by newly reelected Mayor Julián Castro.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
05-24-2013 |
Housing & Development
Tags: san antonio
Revisiting the great Convention Center black holenew
There we go again. Or rather, there they go again. Local leaders keep spending hundreds of millions on our Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, and on its next-door Grand Hyatt hotel, in the hopes that the local convention business will boom.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
08-16-2012 |
Housing & Development
Kangaroo Court: San Antonio's Extra-Constitutional Crime-Fighting Toolnew
By a simple majority vote, San Antonio's Dangerous Structures Determination Board can order a house demolished, any tenants relocated, and send the bill to the owner.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
04-07-2010 |
Housing & Development
Tags: DSDB
San Antonio Returns to Its Ailing Yanaguananew
In the coming years, local regulators, educators, and volunteers hope to revive Yanaguana from the crippled body of our cruelly neglected and abused San Antonio River.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-25-2009 |
Housing & Development
Tags: Development, San Antonio River
In Texas, Grassroots Homesteaders Tighten Ranks to Fight Urban Encroachmentnew
The mobilization of what may best be called the Hill Country Militia is an event with water at its heart -- but there are also prized historic roads and farmhouses and ranches threatened by development-driven eminent-domain seizures and an increasing awareness of the value of the region's ecosystem, cedars and all.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
05-14-2008 |
Housing & Development
Living in Sprawl's Shadownew
The planned community known as the Rockin' J Ranch sparks water fears, irks nature tourism plans, and threatens the many tiny creatures calling White Springs home.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
09-12-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
San Antonio Residents Protest Homeless Campusnew
Helter shelter for a neighborhood anticipating hundreds of the city's homeless -- many of whom suffer from mental illness and drug addiction -- on their front door steps.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-20-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Life on the Streetsnew
A volunteer delves into San Antonio's homeless scene.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Palermo |
07-14-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Private/Public housing?new
HUD's new policy forces public housing to mirror private business.
San Antonio Current |
Josh Baugh |
07-05-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
