Embrey Partners Plans 300-Unit Grove Place Apartment Development in Alamo Heights

San Antonio-based real estate firm Embrey Partners Partners is planning to demolish the 106-unit Treehouse Apartments in Alamo Heights, Texas, and replace the garden-style complex with Grove Place, a 300-unit Class A apartment community at 101 Arcadia Place, just off Broadway. Construction is targeted to begin in the first quarter of 2027.

Project Details and Site Plan

The planned development would replace the existing low-density complex with a higher-density, Class A community featuring a fitness center, clubhouse, resort-style amenities, and 50 public parking spaces intended to help address parking congestion in the surrounding area.

The land at 101 Arcadia Place is owned by Ridgemont Properties. Embrey Partners is pursuing the project independently as the developer, though the arrangement is not structured as a formal joint venture. Brad Knolle, executive vice president of development at Embrey Partners, told the San Antonio Business Journal that Ridgemont brought the deal to the firm last year and noted that the structure could evolve.

"We're going back in with a higher-density development, Class-A construction and demolishing the existing apartments," Knolle said, adding that the 50 public parking spaces are also part of the plans to help alleviate parking congestion in the area.

Lake Flato is serving as the design architect for the project.

Community Engagement and Entitlement Process

Embrey Partners held multiple community meetings ahead of a presentation to the Alamo Heights City Council on June 22, with Knolle describing the reception as largely positive. He attributed that response in part to the firm's established presence in the central San Antonio market.

"The fact that we have a lot of experience developing in the central city up and down, in Lincoln Heights, at Pearl… so everybody's glad to see that it's EMBREY," Knolle said.

Affordability Positioning and Broadway Corridor Context

Knolle framed Grove Place as offering a more attainable entry point into the Alamo Heights market compared to homeownership. He noted that rents at Grove Place would be lower than those at 7600 Broadway, an Embrey Partners-developed Class A community in the same corridor that delivered in 2023.

"The benefit to the community is it will be multifamily Class A apartment rents, but by all means it's more affordable than owning a new home in Alamo Heights," Knolle said.

Embrey Partners has prior development experience along the Broadway corridor, including projects at Lincoln Heights and Pearl.

Embrey Partners' Broader Development Activity

Founded in 1974, Embrey Partners is a family-owned real estate investment company that develops, invests, builds, acquires, and manages multifamily and commercial assets. The firm has developed more than 50,000 apartments and over 6 million square feet of commercial property across Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The company currently has more than 6,000 units under construction or in development.

Knolle noted that Grove Place represents a unique opportunity and that the firm is not actively pursuing similar redevelopment projects elsewhere in the Alamo Heights area.