SAN ANTONIO | 300 Main | 32 FLOORS | 388 FEET | U/C
 

Thanks to [redacted] for giving me the inside on this project.

It’s expected to break ground in the second quarter of 2021.

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This‘ll be nice for downtown SA.

Love it, thank you sharing. Is this a Weston Urban development? This one will be just a tad below the Weston Centre which is 444'.

That is a perfect location for this one! I feel the dark coloring will be another nice offset to the brown and beige. Also! I love that there is retail at the bottom. More residences in this area will definitely help.

I am hoping that the lot directly south will be the site of a new tallest. A hotel, office, and apartment/condo building would be the way to go and get this started.

Per Kenneth. This has already been awarded to a GC. This is happening.

wonderful to hear. Any idea who the developer is behind this one?

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Then we know the quality will be top notch. Excited to some more renderings at some point. Thx for sharing!

Dang, out of left field! Feels more Austin than San Antonio, but that's a good thing (in moderation). West downtown is really exploding between SP Creek, UTSA and everything else. Makes me extra curious what Weston is going to do with the old Milam Building.

Really excited to see a major project again! Especially when it's near that magic 400' mark.

Yes!!!

I love the height, the size, the street level, and the placement in the skyline. I can't say the same about the design. It looks like it got lifted out New York's upper east side in the mid 60s. Ugh, how boring and bland. Did it past the HDRC?

That is great news!

I can get behind the design if it is all brick all the way to the top. Does anybody know if that is the case?

Not a stunning design, but also pretty conservative and lovely! Get this baby up!

Very rough. Thanks, Raul.

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It definitely adds to the skyline.

This one appeared out of nowhere... great job SA! I can definitely get behind this design.

Not bad! Adds good height and street retail. Would like to see it built.

It is being built.

do you know if this one has to go before HDRC or has that already happened and we just missed it?

Love that render! Bring on the mass!

We haven't missed it. If it needs HDRC approval it will pass. It's a bit grim looking but there's nothing "wrong" with it (unless they have a problem with the color).

It's a little dark but I love the change up. West downtown is getting ready to have its day in the sun. Let's hope there isn't anything that would slow the project down when they do the archeological study.

Don't like the darkness to it but since there's a lot of glass it should look nice in the daytime. I feel that more and more we are getting more taller projects.

This looks great and would be a fantastic addition for y'alls downtown.

This really came out of left field!

Love the design, love the location... not too thrilled with the color. Personally I would have hoped for something brighter that offsets all the dark and beige of downtown. The Frost Tower was a breath of fresh air and I was hopeful there would be more developments like it going forward.

That said, I'll definitely take this. It's a big positive for downtown. :tup:

Great News!! Keep them coming!!:cheers::yes::tup:

Also there is an article in today's San Antonio business journal about the Thompson Hotel developer being bullish on developing in San Antonio rather than Austin where prices are sky high. He says another project is in the works, Could that be the Dream Hotel project???

If anyone can post that article? :cheers:

This?

https://www.bizjournals.com/sananton...the-radar.html

deleted article ----> moving to the thompson thread

Exactly!

Thank you for posting!

From the article...

it's funny he said that because it was mentioned either in that article or another that they are planning on doing a development in Austin.

Weston Urban plans 32-story apartment tower in downtown tech district
 

From San Antonio Heron


Weston Urban has submitted plans to the city to build a 32-story apartment tower with ground-floor retail a block from Geekdom and the Frost Tower.

The $107 million tower, 305 Soledad St., would include 351 apartment units, 7,250 square feet of retail space and a six-level parking garage with 456 spaces, according to the Planning Commission agenda for Wednesday’s meeting.

“We absolutely have exciting plans on Soledad, but all still extremely premature to comment on,” Weston Urban president Randy Smith said in a text message last week, before the agenda was posted.

The commission will vote on whether to adjust the property line on Soledad Street and abandon the city’s right-of-way on aerial space above North Main Avenue so that Weston Urban can build a cantilevered parking garage, which is a “necessary component” of the development.

Construction is expected to begin in mid-2021 and last for two years, the agenda says. The 0.87-acre building site is currently a parking lot.

It’s unclear how tall the tower will be, but at 32 stories, it would likely rise higher than the 24- story Frost Tower that Weston Urban completed last year. The only downtown buildings with more than 32 stories are Convention Center hotels: the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, with 38, and the Grand Hyatt San Antonio, with 34.

Weston Urban’s Weston Centre office building, a block east of the proposed tower, also has 32 stories.

The company’s executives have long said they wanted to build housing in west downtown, where they have worked closely with the city to create a busy urban district with a tech flavor centered around their Geekdom co-working space in the Rand building.

The proposed tower would be across the street from the 21-story historic Milam Building, which the company owns and intends to renovate.

In 2015, Weston Urban reached a deal with the city that gave rise to the new Frost Tower and made the company owner of several properties in the area, ranging from the stately Municipal Plaza Building where City Council meets to several run-down parking lots. The agreement required the company to build at least 265 housing units.

Since then, the company has frequently bought up property in west downtown, where the construction of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park and the University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) plans to expand its downtown campus are expected to draw in even more businesses and residents. Last year, for example it bought two low-rise office buildings at 601 and 800 Dolorosa, occupying a total of 2.7 acres, deed records show.

Another notable development the planned restoration of the Continental Hotel on West Commerce Street into house meant to complement UTSA’s expansion.

https://saheron.com/weston-urban-apa...er-on-soledad/

The first rule of 305 Soledad is don't talk about 305 Soledad.

haha. Since this one is out in the wild now, I guess we can bring back the old thread

LOL that was my thought too

An article in the San Antonio Business Journal has just appeared about this awesome project as well!!! This is exciting news!!!! :cheers::yes::tup:

in case anyone was interested, looks like this one passed through planning commission for approval of adjustment of the property line.

Thanks for the update! I feel this will sail through. I don't see anything wrong with it.

Great news!

Renderings???

^^^ We aren't allowed to share them right now.

Huh? Come on!

Hasn't this already gone before city governmental entities? I assume renderings were involved. If so, that should be public domain.

Geez. This is too exciting to keep in your back pocket. And, why make an announcement with no renderings? It's not like there is a lot of competition out there.

I just noticed that they aren't in the thread anymore. Yeah, guess we will see them once they go in front of HDRC. Let's be real, their approval is mere formality, i don't anticipate there would be any major pushback. That said, the building could use a few design enhancements and a little more height to pop it over 400' would be great.

Email them with a petition for a spire. haha

All I can say is the renderings were removed at the request of the developer and also, those were not the final renderings. There will be changes to the design before it is presented to the HDRC.

I assumed they weren't final so I'm excited to see the updated design. Any hunches on when this one will hit HDRC? THeir next next planned meetings are 12/2, 12/16, 1/20, 2/3.

I haven't seen the renderings, yet, through public channels - meaning, through the city, but hopefully, that changes soon. Then it's game on for posting them. I'm also hoping we get to see the elevations to have good info on the heights. There's a chance it might even be taller than 393 feet. The reason I say that is building heights that are submitted to the city, at least in Austin anyway, tend to omit mechanical penthouses because mechanical penthouses are exempt from height variances. So the stated height sometimes is only to the main roof. If that's the case, then it would almost be guaranteed to be a 400 footer. The Thompson Hotel & Residences ended up being much taller than we thought because of that reason. I remember the first height we were hearing was 273 feet with 19 floors, but as soon as we saw the elevations, they showed it as 314 feet with 20 floors. I don't know that the increase would be that much with this building, but it would probably be enough to put it over 400 feet by a few feet.

Good to know, here's hoping on the 400'+. Speaking of the Thompson, what are your thoughts on the building? There are elements I really like and others not so much (mainly the southside elevation with the huge blank walk and sliver windows).

Good lord I need a render! Hoping and praying for a spire of some kind or something that compliments Tower Life :D

I'm such a broken record with my pointy architectural obsession.

I hope the redesign is an improvement because the one we saw was dark, bland and boring.

I did like its height of course, and the fact that it wasn't all glass. I like to be able to see each floor in a tall building because that accentuates the visual perception of its height. But otherwise there wasn't much to like about it. It looked like a 32-story prison.