SAN ANTONIO – For the primary time, folks dwelling on the West Side sat down with VIA Transit and developer Dream On to talk about the future of the Scobey building close to downtown.
There are combined reviews on methods to flip the building right into a combined area of residences and industrial area.
“We’ve been there since 1925, so that’s generations and generations that have put effort into the area,” JR stated.
JR lives adjoining to an deserted Scobey garage unit positioned close to downtown.
He is one of many of us invited to offer enter on the future of the Scobey building.
He stated there are crime and drug-related problems within the space.
“With Haven for Hope, it’s actually brought even more,” JR stated.
So, he hopes the improvement of residences and mixed-use retail area will deliver extra trade to the realm.
“We need more support for the area. We often don’t get heard. We’re often overlooked and we just need a lot of support, especially since the city put that there,” JR stated.
On the other aspect, organizers like Robert Hernandez consider the possible condominium devices will have to be public housing and inexpensive to folks incomes not up to $30,000 a yr.
“Poor people exist and it’s okay that they exist and they are hard workers. But even if they work hard, work two jobs, they can’t afford to rent,” Hernandez stated.
VIA bought the valuables again in 2017 with the purpose of turning the realm right into a transportation hub.
“We’re developing it because it’s part of a transit community. It’s part of the combination of the headquarters building and the transit center, which serves, by the way, a million passenger trips a year. So it’s not insignificant,” VIA CEO Jeff Ardnt stated.
In earlier board conferences, VIA mentioned making some condominium devices inexpensive to folks making not up to $60,000, a portion of devices at marketplace charge and opening the building to industrial area.
VIA president and CEO Jeff Ardnt stated not anything is about in stone simply but.
“We are not ironclad in any design, which is why we can meet today. Take into consideration other folks’ views and then work with them because Dream On is a developer, not VIA. And if a dream can’t make it work or can make it work, that’s going to be their decision,” Ardnt stated.
Saturday’s assembly used to be an invite-only workshop and VIA stated there shall be different alternatives to offer feedback.
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