The Aurora Apartment building is situated on a gentle rise in midtown San Antonio, overlooking the broad lawn of Crockett Park. Constructed in the 1920s as a luxury high-rise hotel, the property was converted to senior apartments in the 1980s. For affordable housing developer Fairstead, we led a thorough renovation of the building. The renovation utilizes historic tax credits and low-income housing tax credits, along with local bonds. The property now lists affordable housing units.

In July 2021, the c.1954 El Paso Natural Gas Building, also known as the Blue Flame Building, re-opened to much local fanfare. Alamo Architects, with associate El Paso firm InSitu, led the high-rise retrofit of the prominent 18-story office building for mixed-use redevelopment. The retrofit has given the iconic Blue Flame a second life – and a key role in providing much-needed affordable housing units to the community.

Reimagining the next chapter for the c. 1929 Tower Life Building is a singular opportunity to leverage our decades of experience in the adaptive reuse of legacy buildings in downtown San Antonio. We are delighted at the prospect of bringing this landmark building into fresh focus: reintroducing the Tower Life as a premier downtown address and residential community.