SAN ANTONIO — Project Marvel has been touted by San Antonio leaders as a gamechanger heralding promises of growth and revival downtown.
After a Thursday vote rejecting what Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones called a “strategic pause” in order to conduct an independent economic impact study, city staff are now moving ahead to execute a term sheet with the Spurs that lays out the funding framework for a $1.3 billion arena.
For families living near where the arena would be built, at the former home of the Institute of Texan Cultures along East César E. Chávez Boulevard, it’s a different story—one of change…