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Boerne Developer Pitches Pearl-Style Village, Wants Hundreds of Apartments
Menger Creek Village presents Boerne with a land-use trade-off: Terramark Ventures says apartments are essential to support the shops and restaurants it envisions, while planning commissioners have questioned the scale of the proposed rental housing. The Houston-based firm wants to transform 29 acres along Main Street just south of downtown into a mixed-use village modeled on San Antonio's Pearl, with a public trail, parkland and hundreds of apartments.
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Local veteran finds new ways to serve in civilian life
In 2005, Matt Foster was deployed to Iraq. Today, he’s helping veterans build community on greener pastures. Foster, who lives in Allen, grew up in New Braunfels and enlisted in the military after high school. He served in the Army from 2003 to 2007, becoming an E-4 specialist. Foster was influenced by a military lineage going back generations. His dad was in the Navy and his grandfather was in the Army and his uncle was in the Marine Corps. Foster said after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he knew he would join the military too. “9/11 was one of those days that I think, certainly for everybody in my generation, I could tell you exactly where I was, down to the spot in the middle of the road where I heard it,” Foster said. “It transformatively changed my life and gave me a direction that I didn't know that I needed. When I was graduating from high school, I had offers to go to college. I could have done that, and it just wasn't what I felt I needed at the time, and so I really had this strong desire to go serve.” In 2005, he married his