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River North Opening
Sunday, 31 May 2009 00:00
Building San Antonio: A look at River North's Museum reach, opening this weekend.
The San Antonio River Improvements Project Museum Reach opens this weekend, so here is a bit of a guide to what you might see. From the designers' point of view.
When you first walk the new extension, you may notice a few subtle, but key design elements.
Development for whom?
Friday, 29 May 2009 00:00
An exciting energy has emerged in San Antonio with the River North project, the redevelopment of the Pearl Brewery, and the expansion of the River Walk. With that energy comes speculation and land-use change.
Recent articles in the Express-News foretell of economic development in the form of public-private partnerships, new investment spurred on by the tremendous public investments made in the area, and the inevitable private investment that will follow. They foretell of the development of “funky residential areas,” due in part to existing infrastructure in the area.
Monte Vista and Tobin Hills Illustration
Wednesday, 29 July 2009 03:27
Wendi Kimura and David “Shek” Vega. “Typically, my work is very minimal, often small-scale, while Shek’s is vibrant and over-the-top and sometimes fills entire walls,” writes Wendi Kimura of her and partner David Vega’s work. They both developed their styles and mediums on the street — Shek as one of the city’s outstanding graffiti artists and Kimura as an art pamphleteer armed with handcut stencils and wheatpaste posters — and have since honed them in studio and gallery. Kimura, a former Current arts editor, works full-time at Artpace and is currently completing interior-wall commissions in Austin. Shek can be found at the Hausmann Millworks on West Russell, and you can see how he fills an entire wall at the Eastside Boys and Girls Club swimming pool on Martin Luther King Drive.
Weissman Cometh
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 00:00
SA’s top chef takes on Italian and beefs up his seafood game
Andrew Weissman is moving fast these days. With a clutch of the city’s most highly regarded restaurants already to his credit, he has chomped off an especially big bite this summer. He’s keeping a critical eye on the construction of his new Italian restaurant, Il Sogno, on the Pearl Brewery property, while down the sidewalk he’s overseeing the development of Sandbar’s new location, which will open onto the weekend farmers market and the River Walk
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Pearl at full solar power
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 03:27
The redeveloped Pearl Brewery is well on its way to becoming a showplace. Now it has something else to brag about: It's solar installation — the biggest in Texas — now is fully up and running.
Two years in the making, the $1.35 million solar project was sending juice Tuesday to Pearl's Full Goods Building at 200 E. Grayson St., where 704 photovoltaic panels have been installed on the roof.
Sound of the wrecking ball
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 20:56
Preservation groups say emergency demolitions by the City are increasing
It’s being called a “ground assault” in conservation circles. Historic properties around San Antonio are being lost in so-called “emergency” demolitions at a rate not seen in more than a decade — despite the creation of numerous historic and conservation districts meant to protect them.
It’s being called a “ground assault” in conservation circles. Historic properties around San Antonio are being lost in so-called “emergency” demolitions at a rate not seen in more than a decade — despite the creation of numerous historic and conservation districts meant to protect them.
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