Laddie Denton has made a career out of turning quarries and farm and ranch land in the San Antonio area into master-planned developments with housing, stores and restaurants.
His fingerprints are on Rogers Ranch, Kinder Ranch, Shavano Business Park and Lincoln Heights, including Alamo Quarry Market, Quarry Village and Quarry Golf Course.
But transforming the bones of the defunct Longhorn Quarry on the Northeast Side is proving to be one of Denton and his firm Bitterblue Inc.’s most difficult undertakings — and he’s asking for financial assistance from the city…