Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force closed the facility in 2002. Following the 1995 BRAC, when Brooks AFB was removed from the Base Realignment and Closure list, city, state, military, and community planners began several years of hard work to develop a plan to privatize approved the gradual transition in ownership of Brooks AFB from the Air Force to the Brooks Development Authority. This transition came into full effect on Jul. 22, 2002, when the Brooks Development Authority assumed control of the newly named Brooks City-Base. In 2005, Brooks City-Base was once again placed on the BRAC list. Air Force operations ceased on Sep. 15, 2011. In 2017, “City Base” was dropped from the development name, to better communicate that the area is no longer an active base and is open to all visitors. Bed Bug Exterminator San Antonio
The Brooks Development Authority has demonstrated economic development success with projects including a 62-acre (250,000 m2) retail development, approximately 256,000 square feet (23,800 m2) of research and distribution facilities for DPT Laboratories, the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (an infectious disease research institute coordinated with the University of Texas at San Antonio), an international pharmaceutical company, and a $25.5 million City/County emergency operations center which opened in the fall of 2007. The 311th Air Base Group inactivated on Sept. 1, 2011, and the remaining few USAF personnel had shuttered the base for good by the 15th of that month.
This area of South San Antonio, Texas has over a century of history to its name, including pioneering space exploration discoveries and a visit from President John F. Kennedy. Brooks Air Force Base was named after Sidney J. Brooks, a native San Antonian who was killed in a solo training flight en route back from Hondo to Kelly Field. Many innovations were made at Brooks School of Aviation Medicine and then the School of Aerospace Medicine, including early flight instruments, the backpack parachute, and medical procedures such as MRIs and Lasik surgery.
Attractions
- JFK Memorial Oak
- Acequia Park is located at 8500 Mission Pkwy, San Antonio, TX
- The Grotto is located at Riverwalk N, San Antonio, TX
Restaurants and Pubs
- IHOP is located at 3115 SE Military Dr, San Antonio, TX
- Esmeralda’s Mexican Restaurant is located at 8750 S Presa St, San Antonio, TX
- Thirsty’s SA is located at 8902 S Presa St, San Antonio, TX
- The Steer Cocktails & Beer is located at 735 SE Military Dr, San Antonio, TX
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