An artist’s rendering shows what the San Antonio Missions’ new ball park might look like. Credit: Courtesy of San Antonio Missions

The San Antonio Missions baseball team on Thursday unveiled official renderings of its forthcoming downtown baseball stadium and surrounding development.

The renderings include an artist’s interpretation of what the new 7,500-capacity minor-league stadium and surrounding economic development might look like upon completion. In addition to the ball park, the project also includes two apartment towers with roughly 681 units and a luxury hotel featuring some 160 rooms.

“This community gathering place, in tandem with the adjacent mixed-use residential developments, is truly the culmination of well over a decade of public and private effort to breathe vibrancy into the San Pedro Creek Culture Park,” said Randy Smith, a board member of ownership group Designated Bidders and principal at San Antonio real-estate developer Weston Urban.

Credit: Courtesy of San Antonio Missions

Weston Urban is the developer for the projects associated with the new baseball facility.

The renderings come a year and a half after City Council voted 9-2 to approve $160 million in public financing for the project, despite community pushback over the plan’s demolition of the low-cost Soap Factory apartments.

In a statement released Thursday, Smith said the stadium and surrounding development amount to more than simply a downtown sports facility.

“Between UTSA’s campus expansion, Frost Tower, the Ballpark and our residential developments, the Creek is now an unparalleled place for all San Antonians to live, work, learn, and maybe most importantly, play,” he said. “This is what our kids want. This is what our kids need.”

Credit: Courtesy of San Antonio Missions

The city’s Historic and Design Review Commission is scheduled to review the plans next Wednesday.

“We’re very pleased with how the design is progressing and we look forward to hearing the Commissioners’ feedback and proceeding to the next step to finalize a project that we are sure will serve our community for generations to come,” San Antonio Missions Board Chairman Bruce Hill said in a statement.

The Missions hope to open the stadium by the start of the 2028 season.

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Michael Karlis is a multimedia journalist at the San Antonio Current, whose coverage in print and on social media focuses on local and state politics. He is a graduate of American University in Washington,...