“When an infill development involves a neighborhood you love, and literally grew up in, conversation with neighbors is Job One,” explains Jim Bailey, Alamo partner and project architect. “To start the conversation on the project at Cedar & Pereida, our firm engaged in a two-year public process approaching fifty meetings of varying scale — sometimes as informal as breakfast tacos or coffee on front porches.”

2023 Winner | AIA-SA CRAN (Custom Residential Architects Network) Award 
Multi-Family Structure Category SoJo Commons earned the 2023 CRAN Award, a top honor given each year by the Custom Residential Architects Nework and AIA-San Antonio to recognize the best residential buildings. What makes our project noteworthy is the combination of forward-thinking, contemporary architecture and its intentional engagement with a public realm created by its intervention. By fully developing our side of a traditionally non-residential street, we created the beginnings of an attractive urban residential neighborhood where none had previously existed.

When Alamo Architects renovated an industrial building as our headquarters in the South Flores neighborhood, we built a beacon of redevelopment. Over the next ten years, the “lights would go on” in nearby blocks, through adaptive reuse of industrial buildings, and then new construction. The Trove Southtown was the first major new apartment development on its block, part of a wave of local renewal.