DEPARTMENT: Neighborhood & Housing Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Ver?nica R. Soto, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 3
SUBJECT: Declaring as surplus and authorizing the sale of 12.38 acres of the decommissioned city-owned Southeast Service Center in NCB 10934 BLK LOT 45 located at 7402 S. New Braunfels Avenue, San Antonio, Texas.
SUMMARY:
A resolution recommending the declaration as surplus of a 12.38 acre tract of city-owned property known as the decommissioned Southeast Service Center in NCB 10934 BLK LOT 45 located at 7402 S. New Braunfels Avenue and authorizing the sale of 9.38 acres to an affordable housing developer in conjunction with the 2017-2022 Neighborhood Improvement Bond Program affordable housing initiative.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City owns a 12.38 acre property known as the Southeast Service Center in City Council District 3 which was formerly an old military bunker/fallout shelter. In 1963 the City took ownership of the property and the City's Public Works Department moved into this location to operate their Storm Water Operations, Street Operations and Fleet Services. In 1999 the Solid Waste Management Department joined as occupants of the site. Solid Waste Management and Public Works teams relocated operations to the newly constructed Southeast Service Center facility located at 1318 S.E. Loop 410 in January 2019 vacating the 7402 S. New Braunfels site.
Upon relocation of City Departments in January 2019, the Neighborhood Improvements Bond Program took site control of the property and completed a full site remediation.
Recent reviews of the property determined there would be maximum benefit to redevelop the site into affordable housing under the 2017-2022 Neighborhood Improvements Bond Program, so the property was presented to the Department of Transportation & Capital Improvements (TCI) Real Estate Division to coordinate a review by city departments and utilities to determine if the property can be declared as surplus and dispo...
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