Small-business owners in Hemisfair, La Villita and Southtown said they’re all for Project Marvel — so long as long as the City of San Antonio’s Public Works Department has nothing to do with surrounding infrastructure improvements.
City officials are eager to build public support for Project Marvel, a proposed $4 billion sports and entertainment district anchored by a new downtown Spurs arena, ahead of Nov. 4 public vote on funding the sport facility.
However, owners of several high-profile downtown-area businesses tell the Current that Public Works’ construction on South Alamo Street, now more than two years behind schedule, has broken their trust the city is capable of pulling off an undertaking on the scale of Project Marvel…