When Metropolis Council returns to work in January, they’ll start the seek for a candidate to supervise growth of the brand new downtown new sports activities and leisure district.
“It’s a serious mission. We actually are going to wish anyone to handle the day-to-day,” Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones instructed the San Antonio Report on Friday. “You’re not going to have anyone [already working within city leadership] with the capability to do all of that, so that you want some sort of ‘mission honcho.’”
Workers plans to transient the council’s Audit Committee on Jan. 13 concerning the pre-solicitation of a request for proposals for an Government Program Supervisor for the Sports activities and Leisure District, in accordance with metropolis spokesman Brian Chasnoff.
Up till just a few months in the past, then-Assistant Metropolis Supervisor Lori Houston was thought-about the purpose individual on all issues Challenge Marvel.
Houston not too long ago retired from her position amid some variations of opinion on the mission with the brand new mayor. However at a gathering of builders again in March, she mentioned the plan was all the time to rent somebody further to supervise all of it.
The roughly $4 billion downtown renovation is anticipated to incorporate a brand new $1.3 billion Spurs area and surrounding mixed-use growth, in addition to upgrades to the Alamodome and Henry B. González Conference Heart.
Such objectives might be expanded even additional, to incorporate plans like inexpensive housing initiatives and public transit, if some members of the council have their approach within the coming 12 months.
