He ran up a slight incline to the edge of a cliff. On that last step, he hit a rock covered by dirt, and what should have been a bucket-list experience turned into an ordeal. Waiting on the ground, his family had no idea their vacation was over. A few days later, Dr. Charles Brandon Broome used sutures and screws to reattach it. Cisneros also suffered an avulsion fracture of his ankle, which remains bruised and swollen.
And he has lots to look after, including several companies. CityView, a private equity firm, invests in multifamily and mixed-use housing projects. His son, John Paul Cisneros, is a managing director. While he recuperates, Cisneros has been confined to his San Antonio office instead of flying around the country. It soon will become a workspace and business incubator. Cisneros has partnered with the New Orleans-based Launch Pad to run it. Cisneros has bankrolled it.
The former mayor is also tri-chair of a multimodal mobility project called Connect SA. It has energized his interest in transportation problem-solving and its connections to all things urban — population growth, congestion, technology and the environment. And Cisneros is always at work on a new book.
He has hired a writer, retired Express-News columnist David Hendricks, to help him. The former mayor is also looking forward to taking in a few ball games at New York University, where his grandson Russell Burton will play shortstop. In , Cisneros announced plans to turn the shop into a space for tech entrepreneurs and startups, and later tweaked the project to focus on co-working spaces.
But Cisneros has since scrapped those plans. Around the same time, the pandemic arrived, forcing many companies to send employees home to work.
He and business partner Victor Miramontes now plan to move their investment firm, Cisneros-Miramontes, into the first floor of the building this winter after selling the Soledad St. His brother, George, will create memorial walls highlighting their grandfather and the immigrant story in San Antonio.
Cisneros will also set up a research library with space for several nonprofit groups, such as the Naoko Mitsui Shirane Foundation, on the second floor. As for the building next door, the local offices of several firms affiliated with Cisneros will lease space, and he expects there to be room for several other unaffiliated tenants as well. The renovations should be wrapped up early next year. SA Inc. It went south due to a variety of problems, including poor planning and a lack of foot traffic.
They bought and sold about 15 houses but that became too expensive, and the nonprofit currently focuses on providing literacy instruction and other educational services. You can be a nonprofit, but you need to make enough money to keep going, so that was a problem. Several years ago, the couple created a company to buy and rent out properties where, for example, the owner had died and the family had no interest in staying on the West Side, Cisneros said.
They own about a dozen rental houses in the area. One of the West Side houses Cisneros has refurbished is occupied by a local tech startup, and he plans to turn a nearby property into a salon and spruce up an adjacent house for the business owner.
Asked about gentrification, he pointed to efforts to obtain a historic district designation in the area.
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