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kingkirbythe.... · #**101** Posted **Dec 18, 2020, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by NBTX11

Who is this Patti Ziontz and why does every article contain their concerns. This person needs to go pound sand. And yes, I logged on for the first time in forever just to say that.

She is the current president of the San Antonio Conservation Society.

https://www.saconservation.org/who-w...-e4ba093c-f17a

And she should indeed ‘go pound sand’.

JACKinBeantown · #**102** Posted **Dec 19, 2020, 4:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by babysal

In a letter to the commission, Patti Ziontz, president of the Conservation Society of San Antonio, wrote that the 32-story tower is "excessively tall" and would overwhelm nearby landmarks like the Rand Building and Robert E. Lee Hotel.

I don't love this building, but the reasons given here are just uninformed. This building is shorter than a building two blocks away, so it's not increasing the height in the immediate surroundings. The Rand Building is an urban classic designed to be part of a city street scape, not to be viewed from far away. Go to any block in Manhattan and look around for an example. (Check out The Red House: https://www.google.com/maps/place/35...!4d-73.9800874) The Robt E Lee Hotel is nothing special to look at and it's named after um... Robert E. Lee. If she had valid reasons to give such as creating a shadow on an existing landmark that was designed to catch sunlight or something, I'd listen. But her reasons are lame.

Keep-SA-Lame · #**103** Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 12:37 AM**

I really don't get it. It's literally across the street from the Weston Center, which is taller? Like what?

ahealy · #**104** Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 2:41 PM**

Yeah, that's kinda bonkers. Haters gonna hate. Do we have a massing render of what this will look like from a distance?

JACKinBeantown · #**105** Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 3:09 PM**

I'll post this again. It's very rough and I now realize the building should be slightly to the left of where I stuck it, but you get the idea.

https://imgur.com/a/RCofw9z

p.s. - Why is my [img]...[/img] not showing the image?

ahealy · #**106** Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 3:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

I'll post this again. It's very rough and I now realize the building should be slightly to the left of where I stuck it, but you get the idea.

https://imgur.com/a/RCofw9z

p.s. - Why is my [img]...[/img] not showing the image?

Ahh yess. Thanks, Jack. That's gonna be lovely when it's all said and done.

What is this talk about a "green light"?

sirkingwilliam · #**107** Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

I'll post this again. It's very rough and I now realize the building should be slightly to the left of where I stuck it, but you get the idea.

https://imgur.com/a/RCofw9z

p.s. - Why is my [img]...[/img] not showing the image?

Because your link needs to end in either .jpg or .png.

Also, I think you undersized the height of the building. It’ll definitely be taller than Frost and look it.

texboy · #**108** Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 10:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by babysal

By Mitchell Parton – Reporter, San Antonio Business Journal

In a letter to the commission, Patti Ziontz, president of the Conservation Society of San Antonio, wrote that the 32-story tower is "excessively tall" and would overwhelm nearby landmarks like the Rand Building and Robert E. Lee Hotel.

"She doesn't even go here!"

JACKinBeantown · #**109** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 2:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam

Because your link needs to end in either .jpg or .png.

Ah. Thanks.

aggie2008 · #**110** Posted **Dec 21, 2020, 3:58 PM**

I don't agree with her -- at all -- but she is the leader of the San Antonio Conservation Society which is probably the NIMBYist group in San Antonio. I like a lot of their work and I'm even a paying member but I only really support the preservation side, not their views on new construction. If she didn't say something the rest of the members would have been ticked off, so not surprised at the comments at all.

JACKinBeantown · #**111** Posted **Dec 22, 2020, 2:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by texboy

"She doesn't even go here!"

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/4a...f31fc8428d.jpg

JACKinBeantown · #**112** Posted **Dec 28, 2020, 8:07 PM**

So when should we expect the next morsel of news about this?

jaga185 · #**113** Posted **Dec 29, 2020, 5:55 PM**

I'd say some time next year when they go for final approval. This one is on a fast track it seems.

AwesomeSAView · #**114** Posted **Dec 29, 2020, 9:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by jaga185

I'd say some time next year when they go for final approval. This one is on a fast track it seems.

AGREED!!!

JACKinBeantown · #**115** Posted **Dec 30, 2020, 1:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by jaga185

I'd say some time next year when they go for final approval. This one is on a fast track it seems.

So anywhere between 3 days and 368 days.

AwesomeSAView · #**116** Posted **Dec 30, 2020, 8:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

So anywhere between 3 days and 368 days.

Pressing Dislike Button

KevinFromTexas · #**117** Posted **Jan 1, 2021, 7:00 AM**

I grabbed some large versions of the renderings we've seen of it.

KevinFromTexas · #**118** Posted **Jan 1, 2021, 7:59 AM**

I did a Google Earth model for 305 Soledad Street. I modeled it at 400 feet.

North

Northeast

Northwest

From Martin & Camaron.

From Flores & Quincy.

East

From East Travis Street.

Southeast

From Travis & St. Mary's.

From Tower of the Americas observation deck.

Southwest

From Main & Houston.

From Main & Delorosa.

West

Overhead

Willowbrook Drive

Woodlawn Lake.

JACKinBeantown · #**119** Posted **Jan 1, 2021, 3:55 PM**

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Nice work, Kevin!

ahealy · #**120** Posted **Jan 1, 2021, 4:54 PM**

Thanks, Kev! That's some great massing/proposal porn! lol.

I say it in Austin and I'll say it in SA: now if we can get a 600ft + pointy tower

Happy new year, y'all <3