After several innings’ worth of public discussion, the San Antonio City Council gave the signal Thursday afternoon for a minor league baseball stadium project to round first base.
Downtown San Antonio Missions stadium deal gets city council approvalThis is a developing story. Check back for updates.
The surrounding development, planned to go up in four phases over the next seven years, will not receive any public funding.On behalf of the 30 some odd owners of the San Antonio Missions, we’d like to express not only our gratitude, but our enthusiasm. We’ve spent the last two weeks doing two things, which is listening and leaning in,” Weston Urban CEO Randy Smith told council members.
“The plan presented to us at 8 p.m. last night, just 13 hours before today’s conversation, was not well thought out, was hastily written, and doesn’t keep our best interests in mind, nor does it include our voices,” Soap Factory resident Sarah Hunnicutt told council members. The use of American Rescue Plan Act money “to put out a fire that this project created” was not innovative, Castillo said, and asked Weston Urban to also get money from the county.The residents were among dozens of people who spoke on the deal over the course of one hour and 45 minutes, including the business community, Soap Factory residents, baseball fans, the University of Texas at San Antonio president, and community groups.
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