DC Partners Posts Strong Sales at Arts Thompson Project in San Antonio
Thompson San Antonio Hotel and The Arts Residences will be located on the San Antonio River Walk. Architecture is by Powers Brown.
SAN ANTONIO – Houston high-rise condo developer Roberto Contreras, CEO of DC Partners, reports that The Arts Residences at Thompson San Antonio Hotel is 65 percent sold, including three penthouses.
The 61-unit project, scheduled for completion in early 2020, will sit atop a new Thompson Hotel. Condominiums are priced from the high $400,000s to $4.5 million for the penthouses.
The Arts Residences are positioned on the River Walk, within walking distance of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
“As this graceful structure begins to take form and shape over the coming months, I hope the people of San Antonio will be awed by its timeless beauty and inspired architecture,” said Contreras.
Contreras and the DC Partners team aimed for a distinctive design that still complements San Antonio’s Hill Country regional architecture. “This is more easily accomplished in a horizontal format, but it can be difficult to execute vertically,” said architect Jeffery Brown, FAIA, Founding Principal and CEO of Powers Brown Architecture, a Houston firm. “We were tasked with understanding the building’s style and what it means to people, and we did this by breaking it down into materials, orientation and context. The positioning of the sun is a major factor in the architectural design, requiring us to work less emotionally and stylistically, and more practically than we might have otherwise.”
Powers Brown calibrated The Arts Residences’ design to echo elements of the Tobin Center across the street, incorporating metal panels that reference the river and mirror features of the Tobin. The team balanced traditional materials and scale with modernist touches, carefully choreographing the building’s crown and its indoor-outdoor relationships to create what both the developer and the architect expect will become an iconic addition to the San Antonio skyline.
“A well-designed building should look like it was born on the site it inhabits, as if it would be out of place anywhere else. I think we’ve accomplished that with this project,” Brown said.
DC Partners has developed a number of residential projects, including Arabella, Astoria and Marlowe. The firm has also partnered with Houston residential developer Randall Davis on several towers.
DC Partners’ portfolio also includes The Allen, a proposed mixed-use tower on Allen Parkway adjacent to the Federal Reserve Bank.
