San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-11
APARTMENTS
AND HOTELS
LEADING
BOOM
Structures Planned, Under
Way Set New High Peak
in Few Months.

With San Antoine construction en-
cceding the S56OOOOO mark already
this year and with more than S25,.
100000 worth of new structures plan
ned for the next few months, this
city is undergoing the greatest build
ing boom in history. Never before
has construction reached such a high
total in a single year. To-.
Apartments and hotels lead all 9th
cr new construction. I
New building in the Alamo City has
already exceeded that of half the en-
tire prior year which also was rec
| ord-brcaker. Two large projects, cost
ing more than $2,0OO,O0O, are expect
ed to be started during April, with
number of other projects, some
costing as high as $4,000, certain Of
going up during the remainder Of this
month.
LARGE PROJECTS.
Although the major part Of this
great campaign is for the business
| districts, the suburban districts are
showing increased activity. The six
story Bushnell Apartment, being built
at cost of $3OO,0OO, is making rapid
progress. The S1,500,O0O San Pedro
Arms, a five-story structure, has re-
! Gently been completed. H. c. Thor
man, a leading San Antonio home
builder, is planning to start con-
struCtiOn Immediately on his $1,000
900 hotel and apartment project near
the new flood prevention dam being
built in Alamo Heights. This dam
is another of the large projects in
! San AntOniO's construction boom. An
| other large project is that Of Albert
| Stoves and associates on Broadway.
100000 STRUCTURES.
These men are planning two ten
story apartment houses near the main
entrance TO Breckenridge Park at
cost of $3,OOO,O0O.
Such structures as the million-dol-
lar, 12-Story Smith Brothers Hotel
on BOwen's Island. 12-stOry addition
on top of the st. Anthony Hotel and
| 10-stOry Turn Nerciu Hotel, club WE
theater, three-story addition on top e
| the Gunter Hotel, all aid in III
| ing this city the leader of the SlElts7
west in hotels The Lanier gently
/ Uldut an tlBhL-NtbIN uuutA anu an du-
dition to its building.
MUCH REMODELING.
Among the public buildings being
| built or rebuilt are the new municipal
auditorium, five-stOry addition to the
| Bexar county court house. three-stOry
addition to the BeXar county Jail, re-
building the front of the water works
building, Carnegie library and several
other structures. This work is cost
ling more than S3,10O,OOO.
! Several skyscraper office buildings
are planned for the immediate future.
The largest of these is the Baker
building, a fifteen-stOry structure TO
be erected at the corner of Jefferson
and Travis streets. The Medical Arts
building, thirteen stories tall. is just
being opened to the public.
NEW THEATERS.
Two theaters are being erected at a
cost of 100000 with several more
planned for the future at about tbs
same cost. The Aztec theater corner
Iof Commerce and st. Mary's street, is
nearing completion, while the Texas
! theater, between the San Antonio
river and the Gunter building on
Houston street, has just been started
The widening, Strengthening aud ex-
tending of some streets in the business
district, especially, is active. A new
bridge. crossing the San Antonio river.
las well as street extensions, viii aid
in cutting traffic congestion on this
street and tend to make il one u
the main business arteries Of the city,
Many of the present structures are
being moved back or rebuilt in the
front, while others are being torn
down so that new buildings can 30
lerected on this widened thoroUghfare.
The widening of this street has caused
many building owners TO enlarge their
structures by adding stories on top q
them or building additions on sites
adjoining them.