In the early 2000s, San Antonio College (SAC) saw the need to move beyond being a commuter only college and to build student and staff apartments. At the same time, their new master plan looked at creating a defined, traditional urban campus with clearly defined boundaries that respected its location adjacent to two historic neighborhoods. Tobin Lofts, a phase one intervention, is a mixed used, vertically integrated development defining the southeast corner of campus. Student services, apartment amenities, and commercial retail space front Main Street with residential stoops facing Crocket Park and along Evergreen Street.