San Antonio

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
San Antonio will soon be home to the United States’ first and only FORTIFIED for Safer Business™ commercial building. The project will house Nationwide Insurance, which plans to place 1,800 employees there, 800 of them new hires. 
The Ohio-based […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
NuStar Energy will lease 15,500 square feet of office and lab space at Brooks City-Base. That follows its recent plans to lease 2,500 square feet of laboratory space for a $41 million refinery, as reported by […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
Five months after purchasing the San Antonio refinery out of bankruptcy for $41 million, NuStar has made it profitable. The refinery, once owned by AGE Refining, cost NuStar millions to transform it into a safer and […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
Construction work recently began on Trisun Care Center Lakeside, a 42,000-square-foot nursing and rehabilitation facility. Developers Healthcare and Suntex Development L.L.C. expect it to open in the summer of 2012.
The facility, designed by San Antonio-based Metropolitan Contracting […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
Two large development projects are taking place in San Antonio and surrounding area: St. Mary University’s outdoor sports complex and Kennedy Station, a residential and commercial development meant to offer housing to oil-field workers in the […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
The San Antonio City Council really wants to keep HVHC in the city. It recently approved a $4 million incentive plan that would relocate the headquarters of the company behind Eyemaster from a North Central San […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
The San Antonio area’s unemployment rate will drop considerably once Halliburton Co. establishes a site that is supposed to employ hundreds. The recently announced plans were followed a few days later by a disclosure from a […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
San Antonio-based H.E. Butt Grocery, which operates 332 stores in Texas and Mexico, recently acquired three Albertsons stores, located in College Station, Kerrville and New Braunfels. The two parties–H-E-B and Albertsons L.L.C.–are expected to close on […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
A wide range of projects wait on the list of W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Co. in San Antonio and the cities surrounding it.
One is the renovation of the Hard Rock Café in the city center. […]

By Camelia Bulea, Associate Editor
A 120-acre mixed-use project developed by Wereldhave in San Antonio is currently under development. Called Éilan, after the French word élan (meaning “vigor” and “distinctive elegance”), the development will include offices, retail, a hotel and apartments.  […]