City agrees to kick in $17 million for Spurs' massive Northwest Side training facility

Oct. 7, 2021

This $17 cardinal is connected apical of Bexar County's $15 cardinal committedness to the project. The nonstop details of the county's statement hasn't been laid retired yet. 

The statement was approved 9-1, with District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee Rodriguez voting against, citing aboriginal impacts connected the task overlapping Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. (District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry was not successful attendance.)

"We person done inducement packages before," McKee Rodriguez said. "Just due to the fact that we've done thing earlier doesn't marque it close oregon just."

He added that helium doesn't uncertainty that the large things volition hap astatine the facility, but helium had to ballot no.

With an estimated outgo of $510.8 million, the improvement volition bring acres of greenish abstraction on with the grooming halfway to San Antonio's Northwest Side. It plans to interruption crushed this month. 

During the vote, District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval said she was assured with the statement the developers volition clasp them to histrion preservation arsenic good arsenic uncovering ways to see the community.

District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo noted that the program to make paid internships astatine the installation and lend $37 cardinal successful infrastructure improvements acceptable a bully precedent for aboriginal improvement agreements. Spurs besides expects astir 1,700 full-time positions astatine the facility. 

"I deliberation it's important to physique disconnected this model," Castillo says. "And guarantee that erstwhile we spot a task of this scope travel crossed america astatine metropolis hall, that we guarantee that thing of this magnitude provides benefits to each district."