The aquatic center was designed by Rialto Studio, a landscape architecture firm that operates in Austin and San Antonio. Rialto Studio also worked on Confluence Park<\/a>, San Pedro Creek and the Witte Museum, according to the company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n A project description from Sep. 25 said the aquatic center is in the Mission Historic District, but post-war suburban development has removed mission-period history from the site.<\/p>\n That description said the new aquatic center will draw inspiration from surrounding buildings, like the Mission Marquee Plaza, and include a sandstone entrance and wood beams.<\/p>\n \u201cThe building layout is intended to evoke a compound-style common to the missions with buildings and fencing providing a secured perimeter allowing water play activities to leisurely occur in the protected interior,\u201d read the description.<\/p>\n Construction will be funded using $5 million set aside for parks from a 2022 bond and $173,600 from the tree mitigation fund. The project will include at least 89 trees being planted.<\/p>\n The site is meant to serve as an anchor facility with space for future uses like a splashpad, lazy river or other outdoor activities. Those additions have yet to be funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of San Antonio has shared plans for a new aquatic center near Mission San Jose that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8571,11532,47530,47531,47532,47533,47534,44827,47535,47536,82,84,83,47537,92,3028,3219],"class_list":{"0":"post-105225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-aquatic-center","9":"tag-city-of-san-antonio","10":"tag-district-3-aquatic-center","11":"tag-historic-and-design-review-comission","12":"tag-mission-drive-in","13":"tag-mission-historic-district","14":"tag-mission-marquee-plaza","15":"tag-mission-san-jose","16":"tag-new-pool","17":"tag-rialto-studio","18":"tag-san-antonio","19":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","20":"tag-san-antonio-news","21":"tag-san-antonio-pool","22":"tag-top-story","23":"tag-typedaily","24":"tag-wc-less-than-500"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aquatic_center2_sa_122925.jpg\")
A rendering of the main entrance for the District 3 Aquatics Facility, a proposed aquatics center near the Mission Marquee Plaza on the South Side, from a City of San Antonio Public Works presentation on Apr. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n