anti-tax dip s with no vision will do everything they can to keep SA in the dark ages.
This is ing ugly
it's a conceptual rendering, not the actual architectural design.
The idea of covering 37 with park space is A+. Would not be cheap but that is an excellent plan.
Inject it into my veins! SA is growing and booming. The city has momentum and life. If you spend anytime near pearl, Southtown, Hemisphere, downtown, King William you can see it and feel it.
Can’t wait to walk the river walk to games and post games and enjoy the more than I already do out of living in SA and seeing the Spurs.
I'm happy the city is modernizing a bit. It felt like we were stuck in the early 90s for like 30 years there. It's good to see downtown becoming a place even locals want to visit. Before, you could've spent five years in between downtown visits.
i know
Watching the video that I just posted from the beginning, seems like the Holts and the Spurs (RC name dropped) are heavily involved to the surprise of no one but still good.
so, you find a concept 'ugly'?
Did the previous Hemisfair redevelopment get completely scrapped? I got pitched on a part of that project back in like 2017-18 and it looked promising, though this looks like a much better use of the space. Love that they are investing in the Alamodome too to keep it relevant... but is that just for UTSA, NCAA and other large events? Surely folks have given up on the NFL pipe dream by now... isn't the new Missions stadium supposed to be in this area as well?
I don't live in San Antonio anymore, and have little occasion to go back, but this would draw me to a trip back home for some games.
SA Missions park would be in a different part of downtown. I would think that the Alamadome would be to stick with UTSA, host NCAA football playoff games or national le games, and to keep Austin from stealing the NCAA basketball venues from us. but, if an NFL team ever did become a possibility, the venue could already be in place.
If there is hopes of ever luring another pro sports team (and a revitalization like this could spur the kind of economic development necessary to catapult San Antonio into the kind of city that can realistically attract another pro team, not like the fantasy-land proposals of yesteryear), I personally think there is more opportunity in MLB than the NFL. If you're going to be doing major work on the Alamodome, might be worth making the necessary adaptations to have it be MLB-ready (depending on the incremental cost, of course)
lmao what a joke, especially the alamodome bit. that money pit needs to be nuked from orbit.
When would it open? Might have to visit you fatsos at some point tbh
per the presentation to city council looks like the spurs arena would be done in the next 5 years.When would it open? Might have to visit you fatsos at some point tbh
they Said they can’t start working on the Alamodome improvements until after the women’s ncaa final four scheduled there in 2029.
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Yeah, that's pretty exciting getting that open space that connects to the east side. Austin is considering those kinds of caps over I-35 downtown and I hope they don't get cold feet on them.
Yeah, I think they rightly concluded that the dome is losing men's Final Four bids in no small part because the exterior shots look dumb. A funky fresh facade and moar luxury suites could get the dome back in the rotation.
I doubt there are any NFL aspirations. If that ever happened, that would probably be some Hays or Comal County boondoggle SA doesn't need to be a part of.
The Missions stadium will be somewhere else downtown further west or south -- maybe Fox Tech.
Too bad they can't get the Missions in the same "Sports and Entertainment Complex" - that would be cool
I like tearing down the ITC for a potential Spurs arena. The ITC has been mismanaged for decades, misallocating emergency funds that were supposed to keep the building safe, afaik.
Personally, I'd rather have the Missions play downtown somehow than rebuild the Alamodome, though I understand that will upset fans of Roadrunner football and Judas Priest/Def Leppard reunion concerts.
As for anti-tax arguments, I'm not opposed to public funding but it should include public ownership. Unfortunately, the city council would have to push for that and almost zero chance of that if I had to guess.
Even without a pro team, just having more sports and events downtown is good for a quality of life perspective. SA should have their NASL team play down there. After living in DC and spending a lot of time in NY I hope I never have to live in a super spread out city again.
There have been federal programs aimed at this kind of a project during the recent admin but who knows if they will survive or continue.
https://www.transportation.gov/reconnecting
It makes a lot of sense in a place like SA where that highway is a huge barrier to connecting the neighborhood and the city. A project like this would open up a lot more space to development because of how much it would increase the accessibility.
I'm really happy SA leaders are thinking about projects like this. It increases greenspace and makes a lot of environmental AND economic sense.
that render looks slick
I like the walkover park that covers the freeway there
I guess a good thing is that San Antonio already has experience with a project of this exact nature, though on a smaller scale, with the Hardberger Park Land Bridge. I left before it was completely though so I'm not sure how residents feel about it and whether or not they're ready to embrace it at a larger scale. It's cool stuff though.
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