San Antonio boutique hotel near starts construction soon

Options for a boutique resort with a rooftop bar close to La Villita have modified a little bit considering that it was first proposed in 2019, with Indiana-centered builders setting up to kick off building shortly.

When the Historic Style and Critique Fee accredited hotel developer White Lodging’s ideas for the boutique resort at 431 S. Alamo Street in December 2019, it was presented as a nine-story, 275-area resort.

It is now planned as a 10-tale, 347-space boutique lodge with a rooftop bar and pool overlooking an unnamed road-degree steakhouse, a White Lodging spokesperson tells MySA in an electronic mail assertion.

“We expect to announce more particulars on this interesting undertaking, including manufacturer and style particulars, later on this summer time,” the White Lodging representative states. 

This is one of the street-level entrances to White Lodging's planned boutique hotel. The design as represented may have changed from these renderings released in 2019. 

This is a single of the avenue-stage entrances to White Lodging’s planned boutique lodge. The layout as represented may well have transformed from these renderings introduced in 2019. 

Courtesy of HKS Architects

The developer lately filed a design permit with the Texas Division of Licensing and Regulation, listing an estimated expense of $95 million for the undertaking.


White Lodging also strategies on renovating two historic buildings on the assets that were being once used as German-English educational institutions in the late 1850s. The educational facilities were being also used as a grammar school, substantial university, and places of work for Hemisfair. 

Construction is anticipated to get started in September with an expected completion date August 2024. As often, facts in TDLR filings are subject to alter. 



White Lodging is also primary a finish luxurious overhaul of the previous Marriott Plaza hotel at 555 S. Alamo Road. It will reopen as the Otis Lodge San Antonio, Autograph Collection in the initially 50 % of 2023.

It will feature a protected entrance for automobiles, resort-design pool, bar, assembly rooms, a destination spa, and room for a new cafe and bar featuring “cross-cultural cuisine.”