Spurs Sports and Entertainment held a public meeting where about two dozen people gathered at Morgan’s Wonderland with suggestions for the new Spurs downtown arena and the surrounding 20 acres waiting to be developed.<\/p>\n
“I wanna see fine dining, but what I put as the primary thing is I want to go in there, I wanna feel that it is San Antonio,” said George Malick.<\/p>\n
Liberty Swift with Spurs Sports and Entertainment communication team says the 20 acers are located at and around where the Institute of Texan Cultures used to sit.<\/p>\n
“What we’re hearing is making sure that these options are both family-friendly spaces we can use year-round,” said Liberty Swift.<\/p>\n
So far, the feedback from residents is that they’d like to see caf\u00e9s, restaurants, and event spaces. Swift says in prior meetings people have brought up ideas they did not expect.<\/p>\n
“Other things just as practical as families telling us we wanna see more restrooms,” said Swift.<\/p>\n
Parking has also been a common topic.<\/p>\n
“We’ll make sure to construct our own parking facility there as well. We’ll leverage parking for big event days like games at the Alamodome,” said Swift.<\/p>\n
District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo, who wants local artists to help with the design and decoration of the new downtown district.<\/p>\n
She also wants contract workers on the project to be paid a minimum wage of $18 an hour or more, in line with the city’s minimum wage.<\/p>\n
“If we raise our minimum wage to $19, they would then also have to raise their wage to $19 an hour,” said Castillo.<\/p>\n
One more meeting will be held to take public input on Monday. Construction is expected to begin on the project late next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spurs Sports and Entertainment held a public meeting where about two dozen people gathered at Morgan’s Wonderland with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-384782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384782","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=384782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}