A Feb. 5, 2008 Houston Chronicle feature about Houston’s changing downtown included a Q&A with former San Antonio Mayor Ed Garza ‘92, an outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M College of Architecture. Garza was in Houston to judge the Urban Land Institute Houston 2008 Development of Distinction Awards.
“In the last decade, (downtown) has really come a long way in becoming a more people downtown or a downtown of detail for pedestrians rather than just driving through or looking at it from the highway, ” said Garza in the real estate section “Moneymakers” feature, “Five questions with Ed Garza.”
Garza and his fellow jurors had picked two downtown projects as the winners of the Urban Land Institute award — the Sabine Promenade and the Christ Church Cathedral development.
Garza is scheduled to speak at Texas A&M University 8:15 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22 in the Langford Architecture Center ‘s Preston Geren Auditorium as part of the distinguished speaker line-up for the 2008 Aggie Workshop, an annual event led by students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Development.
Garza was also the keynote speaker for the Feb. 15 Latino Dialogo in Texas, a daylong program help to identify Latino issues in urban planning. The event was hosted by Texas A&M’s landscape architecture and urban planning department.
The former mayor currently heads the San Antonio office of EDAW, Inc., a national landscape and development firm, and runs Urban One 30, a real estate company specializing in residential restoration projects in San Antonio.
Garza’s question and answer session with the Chronicle can be accessed online at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/realestate/5513120.html.
