By Molly Smith, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2024-11-15 16:13:46
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图：2024 年 2 月 22 日，德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的德克萨斯文化研究所。
在一年多的沉默之后，市政府官员终于将公开讨论一项数十亿美元的市中心体育娱乐区计划，他们将其代号为“漫威计划”。
根据周五公布的会议议程，市政工作人员将于 11 月 21日向市长和市议会介绍该项目。
议程指出，这个潜在的体育娱乐区可能包括升级后的阿拉莫穹顶体育馆、扩建的亨利·B·贡萨雷斯会议中心、第二个会议中心酒店、“市中心的一个新活动场地”以及一个潜在的马刺队球馆。
工作人员将向市议会简要介绍概念规划、可行性研究和潜在的资金来源。
议程备忘录指出：“如果该项目被认为可行，或者只有某些部分被认为可行，市政府将启动社区参与程序，包括规划和设计研讨会以及公众会议。”
根据《圣安东尼奥快报-新闻》去年获得的记录，自 2023 年 4 月以来，市政府官员一直在与外地开发商、房地产公司、设计和工程公司以及体育和酒店业顾问讨论该计划——可能是为了在该区域增添新的餐厅、酒吧、住宅和办公空间。
市政府要求这些公司签署保密协议，禁止他们公开讨论“漫威计划”的细节。
负责监管市中心运营的助理市经理洛丽·休斯顿(Lori Houston)在 2023 年 6 月给其中一家公司的一封电子邮件中表示，要全面执行该计划，可能需要耗资 30 亿至 40 亿美元。
市政府还试图对公众隐瞒有关“漫威计划”的电子邮件、短信和其他文件。
市检察官安迪·塞戈维亚(Andy Segovia)的办公室对《圣安东尼奥快报-新闻》提出的四项与该潜在体育娱乐区相关的《德克萨斯州公共信息法》请求提出了质疑，并向德克萨斯州总检察长办公室提出上诉。他们试图辩称，这些文件会给竞争对手或投标人带来不公平的优势，并且其中包含了与“商业前景”进行经济发展谈判的细节以及拟议立法的细节。
在总检察长办公室于 9 月 30 日、10 月 2 日和 10 月 25 日分别就其中三项请求做出有利于该报的裁决后，市政府花了 一个多月 的时间才公布这些文件。（总检察长尚未就第四项请求做出裁决。）
这些文件是在周五公布的，就在市政府公布“漫威计划”简报议程前不久。
对于将马刺队从东区的县属弗罗斯特银行中心迁至市中心新球馆的计划，市政府同样秘而不宣。
根据通过公开记录请求向该报发布的电子邮件和短信，市经理埃里克·沃尔什(Erik Walsh)、市长罗恩·尼伦伯格(Ron Nirenberg)和其他市政府官员自 2023 年 1 月以来，甚至更早之前，就一直在与马刺队高管讨论市中心球馆事宜。
这座球馆很可能建在半球公园占地 13.5 英亩的德克萨斯文化研究所的场地上。
德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校计划拆除德克萨斯馆，并在阿拉莫附近或市中心的另一个地点为该研究所建造一个新家。德克萨斯州历史委员会最近将德克萨斯馆指定为州立文物地标，但德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校表示，他们打算继续进行拆除工作。
德克萨斯大学董事会在 2 月有条件地批准了德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校将该房产租赁或出售给市政府的计划。马刺体育娱乐公司在 4 月份证实，他们正在就那里的一个“经济发展项目”与市政府和其他各方进行谈判。
本报记者麦迪逊·伊斯勒(Madison Iszler)对本报道有贡献。
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City to give first public briefing on Spurs arena, ‘Project Marvel’
The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures pictured on Feb. 22, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas.
After well over a year of silence, city officials will finally talk publicly about plans for a multi-billion-dollar downtown sports and entertainment district that they’ve code-named Project Marvel.
City staff will brief the mayor and City Council on the project on Nov. 21, according to a meeting agenda posted Friday.
The potential sports and entertainment district could include an upgraded Alamodome, an expanded Henry B. González Convention Center, a second Convention Center hotel, “a new event venue for downtown” and a potential Spurs arena, the agenda notes.
Staff will brief the council on the conceptual plan, feasibility studies and potential funding sources.
“If the project is deemed feasible or only certain components are deemed feasible, the City will then initiate a community engagement process to include planning and design workshops and public meetings,” the agenda memo states.
City officials have been talking about the plan with out-of-town developers, real estate companies, design and engineering firms, and sports and hospitality industry consultants since April 2023 — possibly with an eye toward padding the area with new restaurants, bars, housing and office space, according to records obtained by the Express-News last year.
The city has required the firms to sign non-disclosure agreements barring them from publicly discussing elements of Project Marvel.
Assistant City Manager Lori Houston, who oversees the city’s downtown operations, said in a June 2023 email to one of the companies that the plan could cost between $3 billion and $4 billion to fully execute.
The city has also tried to keep emails, text messages and other documents about Project Marvel hidden from the public.
City Attorney Andy Segovia’s office challenged four Texas Public Information Act requests by the San Antonio Express-News for records related to the potential sports and entertainment district, appealing to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. It tried to argue that these documents would provide a competitor or bidder an unfair advantage, and that they contained details about economic development negotiations with a “business prospect” and about proposed legislation.
After the AG’s office ruled in the newspaper’s favor on three of those requests on Sept. 30, Oct. 2 and Oct. 25, the city took more than a month to release the documents. (The AG has yet to rule on the fourth request.)
That release came Friday, shortly before the city posted the agenda for the Project Marvel briefing.
The city has been equally secretive about its plan to move the Spurs from the county-owned Frost Bank Center on the East Side to a new downtown arena.
City Manager Erik Walsh, Mayor Ron Nirenberg and other city officials have been talking to Spurs executives about a downtown arena since January 2023, if not longer, according to emails and text messages released to the newspaper through an open records request.
That arena would likely be built at the 13½ -acre Institute of Texan Cultures site at Hemisfair.
The University of Texas at San Antonio plans to raze the Texas Pavilion and build a new home for the institute near the Alamo or at another downtown location. The Texas Historical Commission recently designated the Texas Pavilion as a state antiquities landmark, but UTSA has said it intends to proceed with demolition.
The UT Board of Regents in February conditionally approved UTSA’s plan to lease or sell the property to the city. Spurs Sports & Entertainment confirmed in April that it was in negotiations with the city and other parties for an “economic development project” there.
Staff writer Madison Iszler contributed to this report.
By Molly Smith, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News