Last week, City Council voted unanimously to award Dallas-based Aecom Technical Services $3.7 million to study ways to facilitate pedestrian traffic across I-37 downtown, hypothetically connecting the Alamodome to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
The funding extended to the infrastructure consulting firm includes a $2.96 million grant awarded to the city by the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of a Biden-era Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods program. The city will pay the remaining $740,000 through hotel occupancy taxes.
Initially, the city proposed building a land bridge to connect a renovated Alamodome to Hemisfair as part of the vision for a broader Project Marvel sports-and-entertainment district. However, City Manager Erik Walsh told reporters during the San Antonio Report’s City Fest in October that the land bridge was on an indefinite pause…