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A Look Back and a Look into the Future: The Smart Money’s on the South
Eleventh in a Series: A Rising Southside Today’s stories, written by two Southside natives who now hold elected office, complete the series, “A Rising Southside,” appearing on the Rivard Report over...
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From Kelly to Port SA: San Antonio’s Base Conversion A Generational Endeavor
Something must be done to protect and enhance Port San Antonio. That’s one lesson, among many, I took away from “A Rising Southside,” our recent series on the economic and cultural rebirth of this...
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Port San Antonio Sets the Stage for Next Phase of Expansion
Imagine 400 acres of undeveloped land framed by a commercial-length runway, a newly-engineered roadway and a nearby rail spur – all located in the urban core of a major city minutes from downtown by a...
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All We Want for Christmas is the Boeing 777X
Tomorrow is the deadline for bids to arrive at The Boeing Company headquarters in Chicago for production of the company’s 777X, which will be the world’s largest and most fuel-efficient commercial...
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Boeing Union Vote Keeps 777X Production in Seattle
A 51-49 percent vote is a house divided, but Boeing workers did what it takes to keep production of the new 777X jetliner in the Puget Sound area by approving a new eight-year contract extension that...
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The Navy Yard: What Philadelphia Can Teach San Antonio
A roomful of elected officials and community leaders gathered for lunch Monday at Port San Antonio to hear about transformation. The story they heard was a familiar one. For generations, the military...
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How San Antonio Can Compete for Cyberbusiness
Walk through a concourse at Baltimore’s BWI Airport these days and you can’t help noticing the enormous navy blue and white banner fluttering overhead, advertising the University of Maryland’s degree...
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Giving Lackland the Gateway It Deserves
Last year, District 4 Councilman Rey Saldaña was invited to attend the enlisted airmen graduation ceremony held every Friday morning at Lackland Air Force Base. It’s a tradition unknown to most San...
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State of the Port 2014: More Military, More Millennials
Outgoing President and CEO Bruce Miller outlined the past and future of Port San Antonio before an audience of more than 120 business and community members gathered for the West San Antonio Chamber of...
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Port San Antonio Names New CEO
Roland C. Mower, a veteran Gulf Coast economic and industrial development executive, has been named the new president and CEO of Port San Antonio. Port officials made the announcement Saturday morning...
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A Renewed Process for Building a Great San Antonio
San Antonio’s growth would have been almost impossible to imagine 50 years ago. From the Brooks City Base on the Southside to La Cantera on the northwest and the countless neighborhoods and businesses...
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Cybersecurity: San Antonio’s Not-So-Secret Opportunity
Gen. Keith Alexander, who served as director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command from 2010-14, had no trouble drawing a large crowd for his Tuesday speech at the...
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New Hotel to Serve Brooks City Base, Southside
Construction of a 155-room Embassy-Suites hotel is scheduled to begin next spring at Brooks City Base. The hotel, owned by Hilton, will be the first and only full service hotel on the burgeoning...
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Brooks City Base Planning Town Center, Big Job Growth
Plans for a walkable Town Center with shops, bars and restaurants, a new hotel with a large meeting ballroom, old military barracks turned into residential loft spaces, and hike and bike trails...
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Hurd Sees Cybersecurity Creating a Smarter City
U.S. Rep Will Hurd, the young Republican congressman elected last November to represent Texas Congressional District 23, was in San Antonio Wednesday to deliver a “State of the District” speech to a...
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Brooks City Base to Demolish 23 Derelict Buidlings
Thanks to a $1.18 million federal grant, a new phase of redevelopment will go forward at Brooks City Base, an Air Force base-turned-business park and residential community on San Antonio’s Southside....
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Port SA: Growing San Antonio’s Stake in Aerospace, Pt. II
PART II: ONE CENTURY DOWN, ANOTHER TO GO (Read Part I Here) So how do we tap into the momentum that already exists at Port San Antonio to create more local jobs in the multi-trillion dollar global...
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Zoning Change for Water Bottling Plant Paused for a Second Look
Environmental groups called foul this week when the City of San Antonio Zoning Commission approved a plan to rezone a section of Brooks City Base to make way for a possible water bottling plant on...
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Spreading Urban Design Into San Antonio’s Suburbia
What if there were a mixed-use development like the Pearl near Loop 410? What if the parking lot of an abandoned strip mall were converted into greenspace? What if infill development, as we’ve come to...
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City Says No Thanks to Niagara Water Bottling Deal
Ten days ago, a rezoning application by California-based Niagara Bottling to build a water bottling plant at Brooks City Base was fast-tracked for City Council approval by the Zoning Commission, but...
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