Developer Targets Former Auto Parts Warehouse for MXU

Ross Ormond, vice president of Texarkana, TX-headquartered insurance company Offenhauser & Co., acquired a 30,000-square-foot warehouse on San Antonio’s East Side.  Ormond’s plans for the former auto-parts warehouse Recycle 5, is to rezone and renovate it into use as office and commercial space.

The property is at 533 Delaware St., adjacent to active railroad tracks. Recycle 5, headquartered in Houston, sold the 1950s concrete-block warehouse, and has since relocated to a larger space.

The insurance company plans to take space in the building, as has Viva San Antonio Brewery, which has already lined up space on the main level of the two-story building. Overland Partners is the project designer.

To date, Ormond submitted a zoning change request to the city, and is joining with developers of the nearby, $150 million, mixed-use Essex Modern City, to push Union Pacific Railroad for a quiet zone in the area.

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