A well-known Texas barbecue chain’s plan to build restaurants, a hotel and parking near Pearl is moving forward.

The Historic and Design Review Commission granted conceptual approval Wednesday to designs for a restaurant, courtyard, pit house and underground parking proposed by the family behind Terry Black’s Barbecue. A plan for the mostly-vacant site at 2100 Broadway also shows a hotel, but it was not part of the request.

The Black family’s project in front of the Alamo Colleges District’s headquarters will include a Terry Black’s Barbecue and a restaurant that has “nothing to do with barbecue,” Mark Black, who runs the business with his twin brother Michael, sister Christina and parents Terry and Patti, said in a recent interview. The family purchased the 1.4-acre site through 4M Broadway LLC in 2021.

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“We love the San Antonio community,” Black said. “We bought what we think is a prime piece of real estate, and we want to maximize what we do with the land.” 

Terry Black’s Barbecue has restaurants in Lockhart, Austin and Dallas and plans to open more in Waco and Fort Worth. The Broadway restaurant would be its first in San Antonio.

Terry Black’s is separate from the Original Black’s Barbecue, which was founded in 1932 and has restaurants in Lockhart, Austin, New Braunfels and San Marcos. While the same family is behind both chains, its members are fierce competitors. The friction began a decade ago after Mark and Michael wanted to open a Black’s Barbecue in Austin but their uncle Kent sent a cease-and-desist letter directing them to change the name, according to Texas Monthly. They named the restaurant Terry Black’s and opened it in 2014. 

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The project is part of a wave of development around Pearl.

Across the river from Pearl and just north of it, Oxbow Development — the real estate arm of Pearl owner Silver Ventures — plans to build 682 apartments, a 166-room hotel, parking garages, about 70,000 square feet of space for restaurants, bars and offices, bridges and small parks.

Lynd and Opportunity Home San Antonio are putting the finishing touches on a 261-unit apartment complex near Hawthorne Academy. Across Broadway from Pearl, GrayStreet Partners and Fulcrum Development want to construct a mixed-use development with stores, restaurants, housing and a hotel. Next to the San Antonio Museum of Art, McCombs Enterprises plans to build a $295.2 million development with apartments, offices, a hotel and outdoor space.