It’s not unusual for developers with big plans to reinvent a plot of land in a tight-knit community to be met with less-than-welcoming residents. But tensions in a small neighborhood just east of Alamo Heights have reached new heights as a developer moves to quadruple the size of an apartment complex, potentially tearing down historically military housing, according to locals, and transforming it into more than 1,400 units.
Most locals have likely heard of Alamo Heights. It’s a well-to-do city tucked away on the near Northside. But fewer may be aware of a small neighborhood just past the confines of the Alamo Heights city limits, tucked away east of North New Braunfels Avenue and bordered by Austin Highway, Eisenhauer Road and North Vandiver Road.
It’s still a relatively affluent part of San Antonio, though its income brackets are far more varied and somewhat segregated, according to Census Bureau data compiled by Best Neighborhood. But it’s subject to the same developer interest that has sparked ire across San Antonio and the smaller cities nestled within – a tale as old as time that unites historic neighborhoods in a shared sense of anger and urgency…