Project Marvel, What’s at stake? Let’s vote for the future of San Antonio!
October 22, 2025
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The time to vote for Bexar County’s Prop A and Prop B is here.
Early voting has begun and Election Day is November 4th. If you live anywhere in Bexar County, Alamo Heights to Alamo Ranch, Timberwood Park to Somerset, Castle Hills to Converse you need to vote. (See list at the bottom of this page for complete list of 26)
At stake is literally the future of San Antonio. Project Marvel is essential for the continued revitalization of Downtown San Antonio. Without the six projects it envisions, the central business district will drift in to slow decline and the rest of San Antonio with it.
Main Project: Frost Bank Center, Freeman Collseum
The main project on the ballot is turning the Frost Bank Center, Freeman Coliseum and fairgrounds into a year-round venue for Western events that expand the highly successful Rodeo, with a variety of horse and stock events, cutting horses, bull riding, events for young people on the East side to get them involved. This massive upgrade is designed to make it a nationwide attraction. This investment will spawn restaurants and hotels that hope to deliver on the promise of the original plan.
Renovation of the Alamodome
Renovation of the Alamodome to attract new sporting events like the NCAA Final Four, Women’s Basketball events and others is equally important. We would have gotten the Taylor Swift Eras Tour but the Alamodome was already booked up. It’s a busy place and needs a serious facelift and renovation to keep it a viable venue for the next decades to come.
Convention Center Expansion
Expansion of the Convention Center, with 150,000 additional square feet of event space and a new Convention Hotel is critical to maintaining downtown’s viability. San Antonio has slipped to a second-tier venue for national conventions, and our hotels are still suffering having not recovered fully from the pandemic. Without this expansion and rejuvenation, we will slip to third tier and downtown hotels will close and become homeless shelters.
UTSA School of Hotel Management
Building a 20,000 square foot School of Hotel Management for UTSA. This a great educational opportunity for our youth to expand their horizons. Renovation of the obsolete Woods Federal Court House into a modern 5,000 seat entertainment venue. This would attract many concerts and shows that now pass San Antonio by.
Project Marvel Spurs Arena
And lastly, a new arena for the Spurs. You see from the above five projects that Project Marvel is about much more than our only major league team, the only one we will ever have. Losing them would be a real tragedy, but they are worth a billion dollars more in Seattle or Las Vegas and they will have delegations in Peter Holt, Jr’s office the day after a “no” vote on Prop A and B. And then the two richest men in the world, Elon Musk and Larry Ellison, live in Austin and a $2-billion stadium would cost them a mediocre day in the stock market. If we tell them we don’t want the Spurs, they will leave for a city that will love them and pay them big dollars to relocate. Didn’t they show us the love by winning four national championships and becoming the winningest team in the history of professional sports?
A common complaint: Why should we support millionaires with our tax dollars?
These are 15 incredibly talented athletes who work long, long hours to hone their skills and teamwork. Only 450 in the NBA out of ten of thousands of young men who try. Their careers may only last a few years. They work hard and EARN it. And they will pay the City $4-million a year in rent, $120,000,000 over the 30-year lease after spending over $1-billion upfront to build the arena which the city will own.
Another misconception is this money should be used to fix streets, house the homeless or improve drainage. Wrong: the money for the downtown improvement district is not your tax dollars! It is coming from a $1-$2 tax on a hotel room and a tax of pennies on a rental car, all coming from a state fund that can only be used for venues like this.
In conclusion, whether you live in San Antonio, or a small city or anywhere in Bexar County it is imperative that you
VOTE YES for Proposition A and Proposition B.
Please also be sure every voting member of your family votes, everyone in your office and your neighbors. This will be decided by only hundreds of votes. The opposition is organized and YOUR vote counts, BIG.
Please: Personally find five other people to Vote Yes.
San Antonio needs to maintain its positive momentum.
If we are not moving forward, we are falling backward.
There is no standing still.
This vote will decide whether San Antonio remains in the Texas Triangle,
or we drop out and it becomes only Austin – Dallas – Houston.
Bexar County municipalities -Alamo Heights, Balcones Heights, Castle Hills, China Grove, Converse, Cross Mountain, Elmendorf, Far North Central San Antonio, Fair Oaks Ranch, Grey Forest, Helotes, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Kirby, Lackland, Leon Valley, Live Oak, Lytle, Olmos Park, San Antonio, Shavano Park, Selma, Somerset, St. Hedwig, Terrell Hills, Timberwood Park, Universal City, and Windcrest