City registers $5.3M Spanish Governor's Palace restoration
City of San Antonio files a $5.3M TDLR registration to restore the Spanish Governor's Palace in five phases, from roofing to window repair.
The City of San Antonio has registered a $5.3 million restoration of the Spanish Governor’s Palace with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The filing covers five phases of work at the National Historic Landmark at 105 Plaza de Armas.
Why it matters
The Spanish Governor’s Palace is one of San Antonio’s oldest standing structures and sits on Military Plaza behind City Hall, a block from Main Plaza. A five-phase, public-funds renovation signals the city is moving a landmark asset from planning into construction scheduling, a step developers and contractors working the downtown core should track for bid and permitting activity tied to city-owned heritage sites.
The numbers
TDLR project TABS2027004047, registered Oct. 20, 2026, lists the City of San Antonio as owner and sets an estimated cost of $5.3 million for 23,902 sq ft. The filing breaks the work into five phases: roofing, patios and electrical; pathways, grading, accessibility and landscaping; door and window restoration; plaster and lighting; and new restrooms, trees and vigas. Fisher Heck Inc. Architects, a San Antonio firm with a preservation practice, is listed as design firm. The registration carries a start date of Jan. 4, 2027, and a completion date of Dec. 31, 2036, a span the filing itself sets as the outer window for the multi-phase work rather than a single continuous construction schedule. The project is funded with public funds on public land, per the filing’s type-of-funds field; the record does not break out a bond series or appropriation source.
What’s next
Work is registered to begin in January 2027. The city has not filed a subsequent amendment or cost revision with TDLR as of this registration. No contract award or bid solicitation for the work is on the record yet. Contractors and subcontractors in San Antonio’s historic-preservation trade should expect phased solicitations tied to the five scopes listed in the filing rather than one combined bid package.
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On the record
Primary record
- Public recordTDLR TABS2027004047 lists the City of San Antonio as owner of a $5.3M, 23,902 sq ft restoration of the Spanish Governor's Palace at 105 Plaza de Armas, registered 2026-10-20, with Fisher Heck Inc. Architects as design firm and work phased from 2027 through a 2036 completion dateView the record on tdlr.texas.gov