Developers submit designs to transform former CPS parking garage

Dec. 13, 2021Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 5:27 p.m.

BH Properties plans to upgrade an bureau gathering and parking store antecedently owned by CPS Energy.

Courtesy of Gensler and MP Studio.

Plans to revamp the aged CPS Energy parking store downtown into a nutrient and beverage development will spell earlier the Historic and Design Review Commission this week. Gensler, a California-based architecture firm, submitted renderings for its plans to alteration the facade of the seven-story parking store astatine 146 Navarro Street.

According to the Express-News, seven-story store was built successful the precocious 1960s to supply parking for the Hemisfair 1968 world’s fair. The further 3 stories of bureau abstraction were added successful 1987 for CPS. The gathering includes astir 100,000 quadrate feet of bureau abstraction and astir 600 parking slots. The 304,000-square-foot gathering is 1 of galore surplus properties CPS Energy has sold off, including the caller merchantability of its Northside lawsuit work center. 

Plans besides amusement designs to update the ground-level plaza with caller greenery and paving to make a edifice abstraction with outdoor eating spaces and a bar. This would beryllium a drastic alteration for an country that serves arsenic 1 entranceway to Night successful Old San Antonio, 1 of the biggest Fiesta events. 

This is breezeway astir locals admit arsenic they marque their mode to the CPS entranceway to NIOSA. 

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CPS Energy sold the gathering to BH Properties, a Los Angeles-based existent property company, successful February for $22.25 million. BH Properties has plans to lease retired the gathering and already has it listed connected its website.

The designs are acceptable to spell earlier the HDRC connected Wednesday, December 13.

The parking store volition look overmuch antithetic erstwhile plans are approved. 

Courtesy of Gensler and MP Studio