Shari Biediger

San Antonio

Business Writer at San Antonio Report

Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

Reporter, San Antonio Report.

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Update on Project Marvel reveals plan to get people downtown

2 days ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

A price tag and financing plan are coming into focus more than six months after city officials revealed sweeping plans for a sports entertainment district anchored by a new $1.5 billion Spurs arena downtown. On Wednesday, city staff rolled out estimated costs for the massive redevelopment project known as Project Marvel unveiled in November — and how they plan to pay for it all.
San Antonio city panel to vote on Pride Cultural Heritage District

3 days ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

This story has been updated. At the heart of San Antonio’s newest cultural heritage district is a unifying and universal symbol of pride and hope. The vibrant rainbow crosswalk, painted over five years ago at North Main Avenue and East Evergreen Street to recognize the area’s significance to the LGBTQ+ community in San Antonio, sits at the center of what is about to become a designated cultural heritage district.
Housing Trust signs deal to buy Robert E. Lee apartment building

3 days ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

The affordable Robert E. Lee apartment building in downtown San Antonio that went on the market last summer has a new owner. The San Antonio Housing Trust Foundation, which had initially offered $3.27 million for the multifamily housing tax credit property at 111 W. Travis St., finalized a sales contract on Tuesday.
San Antonio city panel to vote on Pride Cultural Heritage District

4 days ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

At the heart of San Antonio’s newest cultural heritage district is a unifying and universal symbol of pride and hope. The vibrant rainbow crosswalk, painted over five years ago at North Main Avenue and East Evergreen Street to recognize the area’s significance to the LGBTQ+ community in San Antonio, sits at the center of what is about to become a designated cultural heritage district.
Meet one of the first residents at YWCA's supportive housing campus

6 days ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

In the span of three months, Sydney has gone from lonely and stuck to confident and motivated. “I believe that I am able to do what I want to do now,” she said. Sydney and her 17-month-old son Sterling began residing at the newly opened YWCA Live and Learn Center in February. It’s the first time in several years she’s felt any stability after leaving home and a toxic relationship with her child’s father. She’s asked us not to use her full name.
Cloistered nuns prayed for rain. It sent debris crashing into their monastery and a flood of help.

1 week ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

At the peaceful monastery tucked amid research and business parks in Northwest San Antonio, a garden of beans, eggplant, tomatoes and corn is tended daily by religious women who spend their days in quiet prayer amid daily chores. So among those prayers was an appeal for nourishing rainfall. Then came a late-night deluge that brought with it three inches of rain and damaging runoff at the Monastery of Discalced Carmelite Nuns on Culebra Road.
Bexar County seeking dollars for upgrades to coliseum grounds

1 week ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

In its ongoing efforts to keep the East Side in the picture when it comes to helping fund a new downtown Spurs arena, Bexar County commissioners told staff to draft a resolution for funding the arena while also providing a glimpse into improvements at the Freeman Coliseum site.
Major conference in San Antonio shelved due to U.S. policy climate

1 week ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

Calling the current policy and economic environment in the United States challenging, the organizers of a major conference set to bring to San Antonio thousands of cybersecurity leaders from around the world have put off the event. “The InCyber Forum has made the difficult decision to postpone the San Antonio conference that had been scheduled for June 17-18,” said a spokesman for the forum.
Inside the headstone engraving shop at Fort Sam's cemetery

1 week ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

Together, the thousands of white marble monuments lined up like soldiers as far as the eye can see testify to a nation’s sacrifice. Individually, the simple headstones bear witness to a life well lived, a family member loved, a couple’s final resting place, a veteran’s decorated service. At Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, the plumb rows of upright slabs with arched tops have a symbolic uniformity that seems to fade away at the inscriptions.
A downtown sports district is in the works. What do you think?

2 weeks ago | sanantonioreport.org | Shari Biediger

City of San Antonio officials want more public input on a planned downtown sports and entertainment district, even as the full cost of the project and funding sources have yet to be determined. On Thursday, City Manager Erik Walsh said the city has contracted with San Antonio-based planning and architecture firm Able City to come up with a community engagement plan to solicit feedback from San Antonio residents.