SAN ANTONIO ? The Bexar County Commissioner's Court approved Jan. 3 a slate of venue tax allocations that includes $15 million for a UTSA athletics facility.
According to a Jan. 4 story in the San Antonio Express-News, the UTSA project was the highest-rated of all the sports facilities pitched to the county committee tasked with ranking amateur sports proposals.
Scheduled to go before voters in May, the money is part of $415 million package of civic improvement projects.
Proposed venue tax funding also would go to the Dolph and Janie Briscoe Western Art Museum ($4 million) and the Alameda Theater ($6 million). Venue taxes on hotel rooms and car rentals would rise. Other projects that would receive funding include a performing arts center, the San Antonio River Improvements Project, youth and sports facilities, and the AT&T Center.
You can read the complete San Antonio Express-News story here.
