Developer wants to renovate Aurora Apartments and build new complex nearby for residents
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Renderings of the new apartment complex San Antonio developer Mitch Meyer would build for current tenants at the Aurora Apartments.Courtesy of Mitch MeyerShow MoreShow Less
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Renderings of the new apartment complex San Antonio developer Mitch Meyer would build for current tenants at the Aurora Apartments.Courtesy of Mitch MeyerShow MoreShow Less
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Amid a peppering of college buildings and hospital facilities, the grand Aurora Apartments high-rise looming over Crockett Park looks like a vestige of another era.
The ornate “apartment hotel” at 509 Howard St. opened in 1930. Advertisements touted “tile bathrooms, cedar closets, flowing ice water and other smart perfections” at a “residence address of distinction.”