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Formerly an Air Force Base, Brooks is now an open community with a mission to benefit the economic development of San Antonio’s South Side and preserve our rich history. Brooks has a legacy of greatness, and we’ve built on that to reach even greater heights.
Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, previously named Gosport Field, Kelly Field No. 5 and Brooks Field, was established in 1917 shortly after the United States entered World War I and served primarily as a flying base during World Wars I and II.
Brooks City-Base. Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force closed the facility in 2002. Following the 1995 BRAC, when Brooks AFB was removed from the Base Realignment and Closure list, city, state, military, and community planners began several years of hard work to ...
Brooks is a community where people live, work, learn, play, and stay, and it’s growing every day. Formerly an Air Force Base, Brooks is now an open campus with a mission to benefit the economic development of the surrounding region and preserve our rich history.
Brooks City-Base is a United States Air Force facility located 7 miles southeast of Downtown San Antonio. In 2002 Brooks Air Force Base was renamed Brooks City-Base.
Two decades after the city of San Antonio took over the former Brooks AFB, its 1,300 acres has been nearly filled with housing, manufacturing plants, schools, hotel rooms, restaurants, a hospital, offices and parks. Now, its leaders are looking outside the base’s borders to keep its economic engine pumping on the South Side.
Brooks (formerly Brooks City Base) is a 1,300-acre thriving, mixed-use community, where 3,200+ people learn, live, play, stay and work. Here are 10 things you should know about Brooks on...
In 2017, Brooks City Base changed its name to Brooks to make it clearer that it is no longer a military base. Brooks also wanted to communicate that it is an open community where people can build businesses, live in residential areas, and visit nearby retail and dining facilities.
The Landings at Brooks City Base, a new 300-unit, multi-family apartment development by the NRP Group that opened last summer, is alive with young families and people that work at the local hospital, the schools on campus, and area companies that service the Eagle Ford shale play in nearby South Texas.
Road improvements, a new park and trails and a public transportation hub represent public investment in infrastructure by the city and county at Brooks, estimated by economic analysts TXP to have an annual economic impact on the region of $1.05 billion.