San Antonio developers buy Westside hardware store building

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Oct. 3, 2021

The gathering that erstwhile housed the Estrada Hardware Store was sold past month.

A section developer radical has purchased a historical hardware store gathering connected the Westside, but remains mum connected the details.

A radical called DSDG - 830 W. Commerce Street LLC purchased the aged Estrada Hardware store astatine 830 W. Commerce Street successful August, according to Bexar County records.

DSDG bought the 0.33-acre, two-story gathering from a radical named Leprechaun West Commerce for an undisclosed price. The historically designated spot was past valued astatine $851,770, according to the Bexar County Appraisal District.

The Estrada hardware store was an iconic store for the Westside, founded and operated by Arnoldo Estrada successful 1934 connected Dolorosa Street erstwhile helium was conscionable 18 years old, according to archived Express-News articles. He past moved the store to the Commerce Street spot successful 1955.

Estrada besides operated the 22-room Sterling Hotel into the 1970s. He retired successful 1999, and his daughter, Laura E. Gonzalez took implicit the business, and renamed the store Estrada True Value Hardware.

The store made headlines during the Y2K scare successful 1999, erstwhile radical were panic buying batteries, according to different aged Express-News article.

Marc Gonzalez walks done the surviving country successful the loft supra the store helium renovated successful 2005.

Estrada passed distant successful 2002. His grandson, Marcos Gonzalez, renovated a 5,000-square-foot abstraction supra the store into a loft successful 2005 to the tune of $100,000. It wasn't agelong until Laura closed Estrada Hardware successful 2006 owed to the changing surroundings with different businesses and University of Texas astatine San Antonio moving in. Big-box stores similar Lowe's besides wounded the business.

Company records connected the Texas Secretary of State Office amusement section realtor Dix Densler is connected to DSDG.

"We attraction a batch astir the Westside and the adjacent Westside, and we privation to spot the humanities buildings preserved and restored," Densler says. "We're excited to marque and prosecute successful an efforts to bash that."

Densler didn't merchandise anymore details connected the project. Since the gathering is historically significant, the task volition person to marque an quality earlier the Historic and Design Review Commission.

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