Residents would like to see the Frost Bank Center area receive the same care Project Marvel would bring to downtown.
Back between January 25 and February 1, a series of town hall meetings took place, and it included talks about Project Marvel, the downtown revitalization plan that would include an expansion and renovation of the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, a new convention center hotel, residential, retail and park space, a renovation of the Alamodome, a land bridge over U.S Highway 281 connecting the Alamodome to the rest of downtown, and a new Spurs arena where the recently-shuttered Institute of Texan Cultures currently sits.
Precinct 4 Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert recently released reports about what took place in the meetings, which was attended by up to 375 people who had plenty of suggestions and stipulations for the area where the Frost Bank Center sits, about 3 miles east of downtown.
“Residents are demanding innovative plans and job inducing industries that spur economic development in an area of San Antonio that has been historically denied the same level of shared economic prosperity as more affluent areas within the county,” Calvert said in a statement on the release of the town hall report.
He said residents offered strategies to attract new businesses to the area, including a refurbishment of the arena to have a water theme, a park, apartments, sidewalk cafes, a running track, and maintaining the facade and basketball court for historical purposes.
Calvert said residents want the same level of care and planning for the center and Freeman Coliseum that the Spurs proposed home, “Project Marvel,” is getting.
Calvert also said there are plans to redevelop the Willow Springs Golf Course across the street from the Frost Bank Center into a branch of Texas A&M’s veterinary school that would serve the Rodeo and help the city with stray animals. Project Marvel is predicated to cost up to $4 billion dollars and would likely take up to a decade to complete while being built in two phases.
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