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A THEATRE DISTRICT! AHHH lol, I'm excited about that.

looks like an awesome place a MLB stadium next to

I heart river north

If only, although you do bring up a good point. River North would be the perfect location for a professional sports team stadium. The ideal location within River North would be Central Catholic High School. That is the area where you see the track and field oval.

This will be one of the best downtowns in the USA!!!! Best in Texas with no doubt!!It's just my opinion!!

I'm having serious problems with what you did in the other section.

Nixed.

This looks like a sweet project. So are all the brown models new stuff? Obviously some of those highrises are new, though conceptual, but is all that really part of it? I guess some of those might be renovations also. At any rate, this is exciting.

Central Catholic? and ATT Campus?
 

I thought that was Fox Tech HS, but I could be wrong.

The Archdiocese of San Antonio is looking for land to place a new Catholic HS so maybe moving the Central Catholic campus may be an option. The land that is sits on is worth a lot of money and the Archdiocese could use that money to build a bigger, better Central Catholic HS.

The cluster of conceptual buildings by the two ATT buildings look like they could be the beginning of an ATT campus. They are of close proximity to one another being right across the river. Who knows?

Nah, that's not Fox Tech, it's the catholic school across from KSAT-12

WOW, this thing looks great! Although, as verbl, said, a pro-sports stadium would be perfect.

Nah, make it more like the upper west side meets Greenwich Village. No stadiums in those great residential areas.

That is true about the Archdiocese building a new high school on the north side. However, I don't think that means there shutting down Central Catholic. Someone would definitively have to buy the school and land while possibly donating land near downtown for a new school.

I second that! If only the city could see the commerce that that would bring to the downtown area. My friend who is a huge cardinals fan says there is nothing better than having a stadium downtown because not only can you get a hotel close to the game but before it starts he can go shopping and go sightseeing in st.louis, not only would it be beautiful it would help the local economy as well

I hope they heed Homer Williams' pseudo-warning about their plans to forgo installing a streetcar.

It would be the best move, but I've no idea why everyone is so against it when people with billions of dollars of development revenue under their belts are saying "do it do it do it"

From what I can tell, there is plans for street cars in River North.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/513...north20sg1.png

If only I could run back to my office right now, I could scan a sketch I did of a fantasy streetcar line through downtown-- it's almost exactly that setup!

I think it will be world class.

I like how the start/end points are the convention center and the Pearl.

This might sound absolutely nuts, but I think one of the coolest things about the whole project is the planting of trees inside the 35/281 interchange.

I believe those trees have already been planted, I think they were planted a little over a year ago.

Cool, that means they're a year taller lol.

This is actually a really cool project. A nice break from all of the suburban/exurban developments.

gotta agree with you totally, trae... it does look pretty cool... now if only it could have already been built... oh well, that's just the impatient part of me, LOL!

thanks sirking for the thread posting!

can someone please show me in prox where all this is from like the hyatt and the marriot is please. I'm no good with directions. thanks

North and slightly North-Northeast of the Marriott and Hyatt. Bordered by I-35 to the north and I-37 to the east.

thanks a bunch.:tup:

verbl, hope this helps. River North is highlighted in blue.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=s&i...678878e47c23e6

That is what I needed to see again thank you, much.

Go to http://downtownsanantonio.org and click on the River North logo for the latest on the master plan!

I just read the earlier parts of the thread. The streetcar is a recommendation by the planners. The whole master plan is a footprint for future development. The budget for the streetcar is rounded to $8 million per mile, so the three miles represented in the mater plan will require $24 million.

Homer Williams statements about their rail car in Portland would lead us to believe the $24 million investment would be well spent here! Another statement by Homer I really liked was "Give me four corners and I'll give you a neighborhood!"

Definitely we are shaping an area of downtown into a spectacular neigborhood for San Antonians. We have dreamnt this turns us so well that town planners from across America and abroad will come to learn how to do it right - just as we have gone to see places like Portland's Pearl District, Denver, Dallas, Vancouver, Barcelona and others.

I would like for River North to develop in such a way that you and I would insist in living there.

Andres, I forgot to say this earlier but congratulations! I've been following the River North district development since a little after it was first announced a couple of years ago and I know you put a lot of heart into it and at first it seemed like just a man's pipe dreams of sorts but in that sort time span from when you first proposed River North until now you and your colleagues have worked your tails off and made this thing into a reality. You are writing San Antonio history my friend, be proud!

Andres, seeing as how we have you here could you update us on Houston Street?

I just saw the River North Master Plan. It looks very promosing. I really like some of those renderings. If it all comes to light it will be very impressive place to reside...

:yes:

Very impressive indeed.

River North....Yet another amazing reason to be Proud of the city where I was Born and raised.

The modern streetcar is a popular new development in a lot of cities-- here in Seattle, we're getting it. Back in Portland, we had it. Why not in my hometown? Even Tucson is getting one!

I think since it's in the frame of reference of an entirely new development, support should be pretty great.

From the shown alignment, it looks like the current "streetcar" and the number 7 sightseer bus will both experience a lot of overlap. Since both these services are fairly boutique, do you think in some ideal future the tram could absorb these routes?

Further to this, what is the operating name of the trolley/streetcar? I noticed "tram" in one of the documents... that would be an excellent name for the service, seeing as it's very european and exactly the vibe San Antonio seems to embrace pretty openly.

Does anyone have renderings on the lastest on River North?

Ninth Street Residences & Riverwalk Hotel
3D/I and Paradigm Hotel Group

24 units w/ attached hotel and parking garage. Located on the Riverwalk at 103 W. 9th St.

Seen in the HDRC Agenda for Feb. 20

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3629/s4021119tc2.jpg

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1731/s4021118ox1.jpg

^^^ Dude where do you find this stuff:) :) :) Great renderings.

HDRC's website lol

AHHHHHH.....It all seems so clear to me now. haha

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ertz1/dty2.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...z1/Riverna.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...z1/rivernb.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...1/rivernb2.jpg

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They're making great progress.

wow it's gonna be pretty deep too.lol

It's like five feet.

That's deep enough to float a dozen fat assed tourists on a "dinner cruise".

HELLz YEAH IT IS... HEHE!!!

I can't believe I missed this.

This is the lock and damn being built.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...1/rivernb2.jpg