Bill Miller heir's plans to demolish old San Antonio brothel possibly stalled

James McKnight, managing spouse with Brown & Ortiz, represented the proprietor of the spot astatine the HDRC meeting. He says the proprietor did not privation the spot designated arsenic historic. 

McKnight says the gathering is not a ocular reminder of thing important to the vicinity of Laredito, and argues that the gathering doesn't person capable ngo benignant architecture to people its operation arsenic an important contribution. 

"You don't thrust down that thoroughfare and person a reminder of the brothel that was there," McKnight says. 

Commissioner Gabriel Vasquez says the developer tin inactive petition demolition from the committee of adjustments contempt historical designation, and helium urged the Westside groups to conscionable with the developers to find a communal line. 

Now metropolis assembly indispensable a o.k. a solution for the designation, upon which it volition instrumentality to HDRC for a bulk approval. 

The two-story spot was built successful 1883 and was location to salient San Antonio fig Fannie Porter, and past the infamous pack known arsenic the Wild Bunch, according to HDRC documents.

It served arsenic a brothel until 1912. Antonia Castaneda, with the Westside Preservation Alliance, says the enactment workers astatine the brothel were moving people women who contributed to the system of the area, and contempt societal attitudes towards enactment work, marking the building's clip arsenic a brothel arsenic culturally and historically important to the area.

Rev. J. W. Shaw, the bishop of the San Antonio diocese astatine the time, bought the spot successful 1912, and past sold it to the Carmelite Sisters of the Carmel of Divine Heart of Jesus successful 1918. 

The Carmelite Sisters sold the spot to Father Flanagan's Boys Home of San Antonio successful 1990, aboriginal known arsenic Boys Town. It operated retired of the gathering until Boys Town closed its Texas properties successful 2017.