The Motley Menagerie, once a happening tea room on Center Street in Kyle, is back at its former location. City leaders joined the Kyle Area Chamber of Commerce at the ribbon cutting.
San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz discussed the Springtown Mall matter with citizens Saturday, when she said the city council is likely to consider some kind of $2.5 million city expenditure for the redevelopment of the largely vacated shopping center.
The San Marcos City Council tabled a $2.5 million “grant” Tuesday night for an Alamo Drafthouse to occupy the vacant Best Buy building at Springtown Mall. San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz said the tabling was necessary because background agenda information about the proposal wasn’t soon enough available to residents.
The San Marcos City Council will consider a $2.5 million, interest free loan Tuesday night to incentivize the development of an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the vacant Best Buy building at Springtown Mall. The loan would be repaid with the sales and property tax increases generated by the property improvements.
After about six months of dormancy, a city incentive deal involving Springtown Center is back on the table at Tuesday night’s San Marcos City Council meeting. Two such incentive proposals last summer encountered public opposition before being abandoned. Now, Lamy-Springfield is in foreclosure for two parcels of the Springtown property.
The City of San Marcos recently launched a program in partnership with the National League of Cities offering free prescription drug cards to San Marcos residents. Here is where to get them and a list of the participating pharmacies.
San Marcos officials will announce a new program Thursday enabling all city residents to reduce the cost of all prescription drugs by 20 percent.
San Marcos CISD will recieve a federal grant, worth in the neighborhood of $25,000, to help boost the reading performance of children in six SMCISD schools. The six schools will share the Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) grant monies to provide books for ownership.
The Unicycle Football League (UFL), San Marcos’ home-grown sport, has completed incorporation paper work as the city’s parks advisory board considers finding a permanent location for the league’s games.
The San Marcos Area Board of Realtors (SMABOR) debate, a fixture in city council politics, took on a somewhat more crowded look Tuesday. With a total of seven candidates up for two city council races, the field was packed at Pappa Pastas on Hunter Road, even with two absences.
