Brooks City Base Awarded $1.2 Million Federal Economic Development Administration Grant
SAN ANTONIO – The Economic Development Administration awarded Brooks City Base $1,188,172 through a Public Works Program grant to support the Brooks Facilities Disposition and Site Abatement Project. The project will enable Brooks City Base to demolish 23 former military buildings remaining on the campus that are not suitable for re-use and are either vacant or lacking in modern-day efficiency.…
Restoration Begins on the Historic Heart of Brooks City Base
SAN ANTONIO – Brooks City Base is beginning work to restore and rehabilitate the historic heart of the campus, the Sidney Brooks gravesite and memorial and the adjacent Hangar 9 building, beginning this month with a $560,000 rehabilitation of the Brooks gravesite. Sidney Brooks is the namesake of the almost 100 year-old former U.S. Air Force Base and was among the first U.S. Amy aviators in…
Brooks City Base Creates Employee South Side Housing Incentive Program
SAN ANTONIO – Brooks City Base is launching a new housing incentive program for Brooks Development Authority staff. The program is designed to encourage staff to support the continued revitalization of the Southeast Side by providing financial incentives to either rent or own a property within a designated area. The primary residence must be within a three-mile radius of Brooks and bounded by…
Embassy Suites Hotel to Open at Brooks City Base
SAN ANTONIO – The Brooks City Base Board of Directors and the Embassy Suites Franchise Executive Committee have signed an agreement to build a new Embassy Suites Hotel on Brooks City Base. The full-service hotel will feature approximately 155 suites, a restaurant, and 8,000 square feet of conference and event space, making it the only conference or event center south of downtown San Antonio and…
UIW Kicks Off Renovations for New Medical School Facility at Brooks City Base
SAN ANTONIO – The University of the Incarnate Word officially kicked off building renovations for its new School of Osteopathic Medicine at Brooks City Base. “Last year, we set a goal to open a new medical school in San Antonio and today we are well on our way to achieving that goal,” said UIW President Dr. Lou Agnese. “We raise the flag of the University of the Incarnate Word to show that we…
