The San Antonio Housing Trust is looking for a partner to expand its affordable housing program. The plan is to construct three separate communities in the Vida community on the town’s southside with the goal of building 530 units. The first phase will feature 90 senior housing units.

The San Antonio Business Journal reports San Antonio-based architectural firm Lake Flato is handling the master planning phase. No choices have been made for the developer or architect of record. An RFP process will get underway before the first of the new year.

20% of senior housing units will be considered affordable, targeting residents making 30% of San Antonio’s area median income. It’s expected to qualify for the 9% housing tax credit program.

Phase 2 is anticipated to begin in 2026, with the third phase a few years after that.

The Housing Trust finalized the $3.5 million purchase of the 20-acre site for the project in December 2023, funding it with a $2.2 million loan from Frost Bank and approximately $1.3 million in equity.

Home Depot recently announced that it was building four distribution centers for professional grade customers throughout the country. San Antonio is one of them. A 400,000-square-foot center will go into an industrial building in Elmendorf. The company will need to hire 75 to 100 employees.

A recent release noted the new distribution centers will stock large, bulky merchandise like lumber, insulation, roofing shingles and more. With a network of distribution centers stocking a variety of product types, pros can order job lot quantities of the products they need to complete their entire projects, delivered directly to their job sites. Home Depot’s Chip Devine added, “Our distribution network is one piece of the comprehensive pro ecosystem we’re building to better meet the needs of this important customer.” 

The company expects to have the San Antonio-area facility open in the first half of 2024.

University Health has started work on University Health Palo Alto Hospital, a $470 million project that will anchor a $500 million medical campus.

The San Antonio Business Journal reports the hospital, which will house 166 beds will be built on a 68-acre site adjacent to Texas A&M University-San Antonio. In 2021, University Health spent $10.4 million to purchase the site.

Last month, University Health broke ground on Vida, a three-story, multispecialty center that will be connected to the new hospital and house its Institute for Public Health. The $30 million center, expected to open in 2026, will provide a home for primary care services, and wellness and preventive health education programs.  The new hospital, set to open in 2027, will have a 24/7 emergency department and a labor and delivery unit.