A city panel gave the go-ahead for a historic house at Hemisfair to be transformed into a Sichuanese-Chinese restaurant.
The City of San Antonio’s Historic and Design Review Commission on Wednesday approved conceptual designs for the renovation of the Kusch House, a 19th-century Gothic Revival house in the Tower Park portion of Hemisfair.
“The Hemisfair family has been very kind and supportive, and we have been in alignment with the organization’s vision to create one of the world’s great public spaces with principles of leadership, preservation, connectivity, balance and sustainability,” Zhao said in a news release.
John Kusch, a stonemason, built the home that stayed in the Kusch family until HemisFair ‘68. It includes a front and rear porch, and outdoor seating areas with views of the Tower of the Americas.Construction is slated to begin this fall and the restaurant is expected to open in the summer of 2024.
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