{"id":268759,"date":"2025-10-01T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268759\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:59:11","slug":"what-part-of-project-marvel-is-on-the-nov-4-ballot-community-meetings-ramp-up-ahead-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268759\/","title":{"rendered":"What part of Project Marvel is on the Nov. 4 ballot? Community meetings ramp up ahead of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 There are five more Tuesdays until the Nov. 4 election, and some Bexar County voters are still trying to figure out where they stand on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Project_Marvel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Project_Marvel\/\">Project Marvel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Project Marvel is the development plan for downtown San Antonio that includes building a new arena for the Spurs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Come Nov. 4, Bexar County voters will get to decide on two propositions to help partially fund the arena and renovate current county facilities. <\/p>\n<p>What is Bexar County voting on? <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/17\/voters-to-decide-on-upgrades-to-county-owned-coliseum-grounds-on-nov-4-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/17\/voters-to-decide-on-upgrades-to-county-owned-coliseum-grounds-on-nov-4-ballot\/\">Voters will decide<\/a> if they want to raise the county hotel venue tax to pay for a new Spurs arena and for improvements to county-owned facilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The county venue tax is made up of a 1.75% tax on hotel stays and a 5% tax on short-term rentals. Through two propositions on the November ballot, voters will decide to raise the hotel tax to 2%. The 5% short-term car rental tax stays the same with both Prop A and Prop B. <\/p>\n<p>Proposition A vs. Proposition B<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Here\u2019s a brief breakdown of the difference: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Proposition A allows Bexar County to use venue tax money to upgrade and finance facilities like the Freeman Coliseum, the Frost Bank Center and the San Antonio Stock Show &amp; Rodeo. The county said this would be about $192 million in improvements. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Proposition B allows Bexar County to use an estimated $311 million from the venue taxes to help fund the construction of a new downtown Spurs arena. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Community meetings ramping up<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Tuesday night, the Hot Wells Mission Reach Neighborhood Association and the Mission San Jose Neighborhood Association teamed up to have their own meeting about Project Marvel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">They invited representatives from the Stock Show &amp; Rodeo, COPS\/Metro, the Spurs campaign and \u201cNo! Project Marvel.\u201d About 50 people showed up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Brady Alexander, the president of the Hot Wells Mission Reach Neighborhood Association, said they wanted to hold their own meeting to create a space where their neighbors felt comfortable to learn and ask questions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re all a part of this,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cWe want to see things that integrate our area and this may or may not be one of them. It will affect the areas closest in, of course, but what effect will this have down here?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Judge Peter Sakai will host a public forum on the Coliseum Complex Venue Project. KSAT is planning to cover it. It\u2019s scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 1 at the Freeman Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Related coverage on KSAT.com:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 There are five more Tuesdays until the Nov. 4 election, and some Bexar County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7288,2556,7236,8988,13123,7202,7203,7199,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,6639],"class_list":{"0":"post-268759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-development","11":"tag-downtown","12":"tag-election","13":"tag-project-marvel","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-spurs","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-vote-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115298092325573662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268759","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=268759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}