{"id":203252,"date":"2025-09-05T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203252\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:00:14","slug":"san-antonio-addiction-recovery-campus-celebrates-18m-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203252\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio addiction recovery campus celebrates $18M upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

An $18 million investment is bringing expanded residential addiction recovery services to San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Lifetime Recovery, a nonprofit addiction recovery center, celebrated a major renovation and expansion of its 18-acre residential treatment campus on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

The $18 million investment has been underway for six years. It involved several new buildings, bringing the total number of beds to 154, and major renovations to the buildings, some of which are over 95 years old. <\/p>\n

Beds for women were also added for the first time, making it a co-ed facility.<\/p>\n

The campus, located in the South Side on 10290 Southton Road, was renamed the Red McCombs Recovery Center after the late Texas billionaire Red McCombs<\/a>, who founded the Red McCombs Automotive Group in San Antonio and helped bring the San Antonio Spurs to the national stage in the 1970s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McCombs also struggled with alcohol in his 40s. At the peak of his addiction, he was in an alcohol-induced coma that nearly took his life<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"The Red McCombs Recovery Center opened its newly expanded residential treatment facility on Southton Road on Thursday. Credit: Vincent Reyna for the San Antonio Report<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always important to him and actually a personal triumph, that anyone seeking help for an addiction should be able to find a place for help,\u201d said Marsha McCombs Shields, his daughter, owner of the McCombs Recovery Center and president of the McCombs Foundation. \u201cHe would have been immensely proud to have his name on a recovery center.\u201d<\/p>\n

The site of the campus was originally home to a county juvenile detention facility built in 1930. Renovations were badly needed on the aging buildings,\u00a0according to Lifetime Recovery CEO and President David Phipps. \u201cThis was barrack style \u2026 it wasn\u2019t sustainable, and it was just a nasty, nasty old building,\u201d Phipps said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A $1.5 million welcome center is also underway.<\/p>\n

Bexar County owns the land and has provided it free of charge since Lifetime Recovery took over the site in 1969. The county contributed $8 million to the expansion with private donors contributing the rest, Phipps said.<\/p>\n

The recovery program is open to underinsured and uninsured residents struggling with addiction, who typically stay at the campus for 45 to 90 days.\u00a0Lifetime Recovery also operates an outpatient addiction recovery center in Balcones Heights.<\/p>\n

Norma Greenfield-Laborde, director of the Bexar County Office of Criminal Justice, said that the county jail has diverted over 800 people into Lifetime Recovery within the past several years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are 800 people or more that would just be sitting in jail with issues, problems, hopelessness, a sense of \u2018Where do I move from here?\u2019\u201d Greenfield-Laborde said. \u201cSome of the best results that I have seen in the past 13 years that I\u2019ve been working with the county have come out of Lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Tommy Calvert, Bexar County Commissioner for Precinct 4, speaks before the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Red McCombs Recovery Center. Credit: Vincent Reyna for the San Antonio Report<\/p>\n

County commissioners Rebeca Clay-Flores and Tommy Calvert celebrated the investment on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is such a great facility, but is it only for men?\u201d Clay-Flores recalled asking when she first joined the commissioners court. \u201cFor those of you who have experienced it yourselves or with family members, you know that behavioral health issues or substance abuse issues is like trying to escape your own mind \u2026 no matter how far away you run, you can\u2019t escape your own self. That\u2019s why programs like this are so important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of the renovations and expansion, now the residential center can house both men and women clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are rewriting a new chapter in how we treat substance use disorders,\u201d Calvert said. \u201cIt is wonderful to have so many colleagues from the judiciary here, because there was a time when we said, \u2018lock them up and throw away the key,\u2019 and didn\u2019t deal with the root causes of the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile others have doubled down on punishment, we\u2019ll double down on possibility,\u201d Calvert added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An $18 million investment is bringing expanded residential addiction recovery services to San Antonio. Lifetime Recovery, a nonprofit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[8425,5229,7288,14953,112146,112147,112148,53774,112149,7202,7203,33863,358,58756,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7819],"class_list":{"0":"post-203252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-addiction-recovery","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-bexar-county","11":"tag-bexar-county-commissioners-court","12":"tag-david-phipps","13":"tag-lifetime-recovery","14":"tag-norma-greenfield-laborde","15":"tag-rebeca-clay-flores","16":"tag-red-mccombs","17":"tag-san-antonio","18":"tag-sanantonio","19":"tag-south-side-sprint-2025","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-tommy-calvert","22":"tag-top-story","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-typedaily","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-wc-500-750"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115153707038133762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}