{"id":480579,"date":"2025-12-30T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480579\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:14:12","slug":"city-proposal-shows-plans-for-new-5m-southside-aquatic-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480579\/","title":{"rendered":"City proposal shows plans for new $5M Southside aquatic center"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of San Antonio has shared plans for a new aquatic center near Mission San Jose that includes a 3,020-square-foot pool and a shallow, zero-entry lagoon for children, as well as future space for a slide tower and lazy river.<\/p>\n

The aquatic center would cost just over $5 million and be set for completion in the fall of 2027, according to the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The site for the project is between the Mission Marquee Plaza, the Harvey E. Najim Family YMCA and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9186. The Mission Marquee Plaza is a community event space that was formerly known as the Mission Drive-In Theater.<\/p>\n

City officials included plans for the aquatic center in a proposal to the Historic and Design Review Commission, which will conduct a final review of the project at its Jan. 21 meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

The aquatic center was designed by Rialto Studio, a landscape architecture firm that operates in Austin and San Antonio. Rialto Studio also worked on Confluence Park<\/a>, San Pedro Creek and the Witte Museum, according to the company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A project description from Sep. 25 said the aquatic center is in the Mission Historic District, but post-war suburban development has removed mission-period history from the site.<\/p>\n

\"\"A rendering of the main entrance for the District 3 Aquatics Facility, a proposed aquatics center near the Mission Marquee Plaza on the South Side, from a City of San Antonio Public Works presentation on Apr. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

That description said the new aquatic center will draw inspiration from surrounding buildings, like the Mission Marquee Plaza, and include a sandstone entrance and wood beams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe building layout is intended to evoke a compound-style common to the missions with buildings and fencing providing a secured perimeter allowing water play activities to leisurely occur in the protected interior,\u201d read the description.<\/p>\n

Construction will be funded using $5 million set aside for parks from a 2022 bond and $173,600 from the tree mitigation fund. The project will include at least 89 trees being planted.<\/p>\n

The site is meant to serve as an anchor facility with space for future uses like a splashpad, lazy river or other outdoor activities. Those additions have yet to be funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of San Antonio has shared plans for a new aquatic center near Mission San Jose that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,76763,58248,217753,129064,217754,217755,67935,211581,217756,217757,7202,217758,7203,358,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,11887],"class_list":{"0":"post-480579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-aquatic-center","10":"tag-city-of-san-antonio","11":"tag-district-3-aquatic-center","12":"tag-historic-and-design-review-comission","13":"tag-mission-drive-in","14":"tag-mission-historic-district","15":"tag-mission-marquee-plaza","16":"tag-mission-san-jose","17":"tag-new-pool","18":"tag-rialto-studio","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-san-antonio-pool","21":"tag-sanantonio","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-top-story","24":"tag-tx","25":"tag-typedaily","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-wc-less-than-500"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809882356598564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480579","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=480579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}