LOCAL BUSINESS

Local convenience store Jefferson Bodega is now for sale, providing the opportunity for a new owner to take over the popular establishment.

The collaborative startup community Geekdom will take over management of operations at Launch SA, an entrepreneurship and small business center located inside the Central Library downtown.

Exotic cars, fine dining and five-star experiences. That’s what Prestige Motorsports says it has planned for a new development near San Antonio International Airport.

A lot south of the Alamodome is being eyed for an upscale RV park.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Xenex Disinfection Services a De Novo authorization for its LightStrike+ device.

Those who still haven’t seen “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer” — or want to watch them again — can catch them for $4 at Santikos theaters on Sunday for National Cinema Day.

On Sunday, Aug. 27, movie tickets, unlimited popcorn and sodas will cost just $4 each at all EVO Cinemas, EVO Entertainment, ShowBiz Cinemas, and Times Square Grand Slam venues.

Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. is planning to make a major capital investment across its portfolio, and one of the beneficiaries is New Braunfels’ Schlitterbahn Waterpark & Resort.

The Alamo City agency could lock in as much as $150 million to support its plan for a second line.

A first look at the 10,000-square-foot venue inspired in part by the Dallas Cowboys’ Star complex

The Selma facility will employ more than 100 people, supporting more than 100 of its restaurants in the South Texas region.

The company closed a transaction with CION Investment Corporation, a business development company, in late July. The deal gets David’s Bridal out of bankruptcy and will keep 195 David’s Bridal locations open, including two in San Antonio.

A first look at the 10,000-square-foot venue inspired in part by the Dallas Cowboys’ Star complex

Service includes chicken coops with cameras and chicken tenders that check on and feed chickens

The Selma facility will employ more than 100 people, supporting more than 100 of its restaurants in the South Texas region.

The store is strictly for pick-ups with no dining room.

Las Vegas restaurant expected to open in the fall

Alamodome General Manager Stephen Zito is taking on a new role with the city of San Antonio, moving up the ranks to an assistant director position with its Convention and Sports Facilities Department.

In 2026, the San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum plans to move out of its current headquarters in La Villita, hoping to set up shop at the Kress-Grant Building at 311 East Houston St.

Local Latin-inspired pizza chain Pizza Patrón has brought on a restaurant industry veteran as its first chief operating officer to oversee the company’s expansion push

The Rainbow Theater has undergone an extensive renovation and reopened on July 15.

The Texas Burn Survivor Society’s (TBSS) annual pediatric burn camp returned after a three-year hiatus this past Sunday.

San Antonio business owners will soon be able to apply for grants to make improvements to façades, landscaping, signage and amenities.

Olympian Fencing Club is located on St. Anthony's campus and has both recreational and competitive programs.

Texas Tang Soo Do has been opened for nearly 40 years and puts an emphasis on training for health, self-defense and to be a good person.

Geekdom's Startup Day will bring a day full of programming and networking opportunities for the business community.

Olympia Gymnastics is a family-owned business that offers competitive and recreational gymnastics, training, cheer training, tumbling ninjas, own camps, and birthday parties.

Code4Bots teaches kids everything from coding, robots, animation, 3D printing plus much more.

Port San Antonio is running out of room in its current space, but more companies are seeking to plant their flags on the Southwest Side campus.

The restaurant opened on June 6.

To date in 2023, USAA has laid off more than 900 employees.

In an annual report published on Tuesday, USAA, headquartered on San Antonio’s Northwest Side, reported just over $36 billion in revenue in 2022, a 3% decline from last year.

Geekdom is holding free, three-day workshops for local entrepreneurs wanting to launch a new business.

An ambitious 1,900-acre community in New Braunfels will begin delivering lots to homebuilders later this year, with hundreds of new homes on the horizon.

Embrey is upping the stakes on its built-to-rent gamble, announcing its third single-family rental community in Boerne — before the other two have even wrapped up construction.

If Lennar discovers an appetite for small-footprint housing in San Antonio, it could be a key piece of the affordable housing puzzle in the city.

The facility will move from 7031 S. New Braunfels Ave. to a new site at 5665 SE Loop 410.

The free event is happening on April 8 at Alamo Beer Company.

One in every six retail developments completed in San Antonio this quarter was a Dutch Bros.

The Will Smith Zoo School, which opened its current Alamo City campus in 2018, now has a waiting list of more than 8,000 families.

UT Health San Antonio plans to begin construction soon on a multistory tower in the heart of the South Texas Medical Center that will be home to its $100 million Center for Brain Health.

At the height of an ongoing dearth in transformers bottlenecking real estate development in San Antonio, CPS Energy found itself having to send back a portion of a shipment it received in January due to quality concerns.

San Antonio-based Whataburger reorganized its corporate structure last week, resulting in a wave of layoffs eliminating several employees from the organization.

Dallas-based Corner Bakery Café has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to media reports.

The building will feature five restaurant concepts — Hook, Amelia Tapas & Wine, Lunatique, Creme Coffee and Easy Baby.

Richard Pretlow, an architect by trade, brings more than 14 years of theme park industry experience to the Alamo City attraction.

The layoffs were reportedly due to the “troublesome economy,” and not a result of department performance.

Mary Ann Hill, the longtime owner-operator of The Pig Stand, said she’s in negotiations on a new lease and hopes to keep the location open

The multifamily project is one of the rare, fully-affordable apartment buildings that will be on offer in the downtown area.

Potluck Hospitality set a targeted opening date for its new music hall in the historic Pearl Stable building.

Ongoing construction in the Alta Vista neighborhood is significantly cutting down on traffic at the Oscar De La Tienda convenience store, making it difficult for the owner to make ends meet.

Bexar County records show an LLC tied to GrayStreet partner Kevin Covey and Christopher Grossman paying $6 million for the two parcels of land.

San Antonio’s growth in sales volume is expected to far outpace the national rate of change.

Sarah Hernandez,19, is the CEO of her restaurant Sarah’s Barbacoa. Hernandez’s sister Rebecca, who is 23 years old, is the CFO.

The Tower of the Americas, the centerpiece of the San Antonio skyline since its unveiling at the 1968 World's Fair, is slated to undergo major renovations in 2024.

San Antonio’s growth in sales volume is expected to far outpace the national rate of change.

Market Square is preparing to undergo major renovations

Local insurance and financial services giant USAA announced that the company will be vacating its downtown office space by the end of 2022.

Rosario’s on South Alamo will serve its last meal at 9 p.m. on Sunday. But, don’t worry — the beloved restaurant is going to reopen at a new location soon.

More than a third of homes for sale in the San Antonio area are being discounted, according to new data from Zillow.

Four million fewer guests visited Six Flags parks in the recently completed third quarter than during the same period a year ago. Over the first nine months of this year, the company’s turnstile count is down by 5.5 million customers.

The Brackenridge Park Conservancy has recruited a new CEO, Talli Dolge, who will lead the organization’s ongoing pursuit of key improvements for some of San Antonio’s more significant midtown assets, including a $62 million plan unveiled more than a year ago to restore and expand Sunken Garden Theater.

The city of Windcrest is losing one of its largest employers as Rackspace Technology plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from the former Windsor Park Mall into a smaller space in North San Antonio.

Nearly seven months after Alamo City officials said they were advancing discussions with The Boring Co. regarding a proposed underground transit tunnel connecting San Antonio International Airport with the downtown area, Elon Musk’s venture has yet to strike a deal.

According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, San Antonio's median family income has reached $83,500, a 13% spike over last year’s median of $74,100

An affordable housing community on the Northeast Side, which broke ground in 2020 and held its ribbon cutting last month, is already 99% leased, as San Antonio scrambles to bring affordably priced units online.

Initial plans to rehabilitate the historic Spaghetti Warehouse building at 1226 E. Houston St. may be hitting a snag as the developer contends with the realities of the current economy.

The San Antonio Public Works Department is warning drivers to find another route because Commerce will be closed from St. Mary’s Street to Soledad Street through Sunday.

Dude Perfect, the Frisco-based sports/entertainment group that has amassed more than 58 million subscribers on YouTube, revealed plans to leave its current location for a new corporate HQ and entertainment destination that will feature a 330-foot tower.

San Antonio-based Rackspace Technology, Inc. announced Monday morning that CEO Kevin Jones is stepping down, effective immediately.

Prefabricated modular homes may soon be on the rise in San Antonio thanks in part to a proposed change to the city’s development code.

A local minority women-owned investment group has purchased four of the eight former Hometown Burger restaurants and will rebrand them as Burger Factory restaurants.

Over the course of the pandemic, nine San Antonio ZIP codes became prohibitively expensive for median income households.

San Antonio-based Santikos Entertainment is now pursuing new ground-up expansion in one of the city’s fastest-growing areas.

The San Antonio Missions could be part of a shared-stadium strategy

Beginning Tuesday, September 6, the Santikos Silverado location at Bandera and Loop 1604 will start phase one of a two-phase revamp.

If VIA approves the development plans, they could be underway by the fourth quarter of 2023, and could be complete within 18 months.

The Business Journal obtained records from SAWS that show information about the highest users of potable water, providing insight into how much water these massive businesses and institutions use.

Recent surges in pricing are contributing to a slowdown in the pace and competitiveness of home sales in the San Antonio region, and developers are responding in kind.

A Houston-area company plans to redevelop retail space inside Wonderland of the Americas into a new entertainment venue.

At $1,209 per month, San Antonio’s average rental price is 12% more expensive than it was at the end of Q2 last year, according to the report.

One of the planned hospitals is earmarked for a site near the Retama Park Racetrack in nearby Selma. The other would be built next to the Texas A&M University-San Antonio campus on the city’s South Side.

What’s proposed is a linear parklike corridor stretching from the San Antonio River at Convent Park near the planned Dream San Antonio hotel westward toward San Pedro Creek and rising up at Camaron Street

San Antonio’s Historic Design and Review Commission granted Indiana-based White Lodging final approval to develop a 10-story hotel along South Alamo Street near La Villita and Hemisfair.

Multiple entities are exploring several sites, including one group interested in downtown acreage along the redeveloped San Pedro Creek that could involve Weston Urban.

San Antonio’s information technology industry generates an annual economic impact of nearly $11 billion and employs 48,000 people, according to the first report to measure such findings.

Roots Food Hall will feature a full-service bar and four separate mini-kitchens

Michoacàn A Pedir de Boca, a paletería and snack shop opened in Boerne.

Two San Antonio locations of a Mexico-based restaurant and bar suddenly closed on Monday.

Hill Country Studios would be one of the largest film studios in the country.

Company with a strong presence in the U.S. and Canada looks to build on Boerne-area property’s past

Cambridge plans for Citadel Urban to consist of 182 one-, two- and three-bedroom units.

The fast-food chain announced that the three new locations will employ a workforce of 660 employees.

The Don Strange Ranch is a sprawling 81 acre estate with two houses and two event venues, and is bifurcated by Zinc Creek.

As tourism continues a strong rebound in San Antonio and the city’s population growth stays on an upwards trajectory, all that foot traffic is showing hefty returns for San Antonio’s retail market.

The rebound is key as Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. approaches a third summer season in a pandemic.

Pearl is advancing plans to redevelop its Stable building into a new live music venue and more details have emerged, including an estimated price tag approaching $11 million and a clearer idea of who will operate the new concert hall once completed.

Tricon Trail Creek will include 180 three- and four-bedroom single family houses with attached two-car garages, keyless front door entry and smart home technology.

On May 31, all Luby’s stockholders will automatically receive a distribution of one liquidating trust unit for each common share held.