SamanoArchitecture
BROWNSVILLE, TX
2020 - 2025
In late 2020, we began work with our partner cdcb on an exciting historic adaptive reuse of the Samano Building in downtown Brownsville. Located at 1158 E. Elizabeth Street, the property consists of five stories, each approximately 5,775 square feet, with a basement. Originally built as a bank in 1925, the Samano building most recently was a Payless Shoe Store, followed by a period of vacancy until cdcb acquired the building.
The finished Samano Building will include a small grocery store and coffee shop on the ground floor (filling the gap in nutritious grocery access left when HEB moved from its downtown location), coworking/office spaces on the middle floor, and 34 units of affordable housing on the top floors with set-asides for citizens in transition.
Partners:
[bc] Contributors:
Benje Feehan
Donald Hickman
Alison Katz
Gerardo Gutierrez
Luis Murillo
Mikhail Sookoor
Pei-en Yang
Samano soon after construction at 1158 E. Elizabeth Street
The building before renovation
UPDATES
July 21, 2021
Along with cdcb, we recently had a pre-construction tour of Samano Studios & Armand's Grocery in Brownsville. This renovation is transforming the turn-of-the-century Samano Building in historic downtown Brownsville into permanent supportive housing studio apartments, office spaces, a grocery store and a coffee shop.
