Bexar County commissioners on Tuesday voted to move forward on the potential renovation of a building at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston to house 1,000 personnel of the Defense Health Agency (DHA).
They directed county staff to negotiate with the local architecture firm of Chesney Morales Partners, which may be hired to update designs done in 2005 and 2006 to get a better fix on current construction costs. They did those designs and may be the best qualified and most cost effective to do the job again.
Talk of housing the DHA at the fort began back in 2019, and while the city and county each set aside $10 million for the project, another $10 million in unrealized state grants was needed for the project pegged then at $30 million. But those cost estimates are now obviously old, and there are hopes the project can now be revived…