Council members, we're gonna get started.

The time is now two or four p.m.

on Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 in the city of San Antonio.

B session is called to order.

Madam Clerk, please call roll.

Councilmember Corps.

Councilmember McKee Rodriguez.

Councilmember Via Gran.

Here.

Councilmember Monguilla.

Present.

Councilmember Castillo.

Councilmember Gavon.

Councilmember Alareta Gavito.

Here.

Councilmember Mesa Gonzalez.

Councilmember Spears.

Councilmember White.

Mayor Jones.

Mayor, we have quorum.

Great.

Thank you.

This meeting is a briefing as an update.

This was deferred if you remember from about a month ago.

An update on the sports and downtown entertainment district.

Go ahead, Eric.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good afternoon, Mayor Council.

So yes, this was an item that had previously been scheduled for on May 7th, and based on council conversation that day, and the request to move it to a B session.

Today's update on the proposed downtown sports entertainment district and the progress uh made uh since the last council update.

This initiative obviously uh represents a significant investment in the future of San Antonio and includes um potentially a downtown arena, convention center expansion, uh enhanced connectivity, downtown, um, um the um uh mixed use development opportunities and other key infrastructure improvements.

Uh Shannon is kind of going to walk through the update uh since the council's approval of the term sheet uh framework and subsequent action.

Staff has been continuing to coordinate with key partners and stakeholders on the work, and and you'll see that in the presentation.

Um we uh uh you will also include in today's presentation the timeline for when we will be returning back.

There's a fair amount of work that's coming back to the council in September, and with that I will turn it over to Shannon to walk through the presentation.

Great.

Thank you, Eric.

Um good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

I'm Shannon Miller, Chief Downtown Officer.

Happy to um be with you this afternoon to walk through the presentation.

Um to start, I we wanted to provide an update related to the downtown working group that began meeting in April of this year.

Um the downtown working group, and you'll see the members listed there, is working to inventory uh relevant efforts and data around housing infrastructure and mobility in downtown.

Um the group is made up of five council members and five community leaders in housing, transportation, housing and transportation, who will help us develop a policy framework that will come back to the full city council for consideration.

At the last meeting, the working group reviewed upcoming affordable housing developments by Opportunity Home and by the San Antonio Housing Trust, and we received briefings from uh via about their downtown mobility efforts and some of the one of the presentations and some of the handouts from that last session um were passed out for you prior to the meeting.

Uh the meeting next month will include a discussion by Centro San Antonio of the draft downtown strategic framework that they commissioned, and we will also discuss public assets downtown, such as efforts related to the riverwalk strategic plan that is underway.

Um this work builds upon um adopted priorities for downtown that were included in the SA Tomorrow Downtown Area Plan.

Um, as of about a month or so ago, the city hired Accenture to serve as the executive program manager uh for the district, the overall district project, and help to coordinate um the various projects within the district.

So the EPM helps city staff to ensure that strategy, funding, governance, and delivery are aligned across projects as the district rolls out.

Accenture will be preparing a public facing dashboard to track priority metrics, which will launch in the new year.

But prior to that, the team will be bringing forward a proposal for what will be included in that dashboard as part of an update in September to receive council feedback on that dashboard to ensure that we will be providing the information that the council wants us to be sharing with the public and that the public will expect to see.

We'll talk a little bit about some acquisitions that are pending related to the district, two in particular.

The first is the federal building at Indianola and Cesar Chavez Boulevard, and it is about 5.7-acre property and is a future site of mixed-use development as part of the larger district and will help to support the financing of the arena.

The purchase price is 30 million dollars plus closing costs of up to 120,000, and that purchase price is funded through contribution from the Spurs.

Closing is expected on that property in July of this year.

The second property is the former ITC site at the corner of I 37, currently owned by the UT system.

This is approximately 13.5 acre property and is planned for the arena and the mixed use development.

We anticipate that that property will cost approximately 60 million dollars, although appraisals are still underway, and the funding is anticipated to come from the midtown tours.

That purchase should be finalized later this year, before the end of the calendar year.

The next slide is about some updates on our facilities.

The sports and entertainment district contains two of our existing facilities, the convention center and the Alamo Dome.