Southstar is looking to transform the former Lone Star Brewery complex and industrial properties nearby into a 57-acre district with several types of housing, stores, shops, offices, parks and a small hotel along the San Antonio River — at a cost of $575 million.
The New Braunfels-based company is proposing building market-rate and affordable rental housing, townhomes and single-family homes, as well as live-work spaces for artists — between about 1,500 and 1,800 units in all, according to new details presented Wednesday at a Westside Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone meeting.
Southstar would also build 174,370 square feet of space for restaurants and stores and a 157-room hotel, and renovate a historic brewhouse and warehouse at Lone Star and part of a defunct Mission Road power plant site across the river.
The buildings would be surrounded by around 13 to 15 acres of plazas, parks and linear trails connecting the district to Roosevelt Park, the Mission Reach section of the river and the Lone Star and Roosevelt Park neighborhoods…