Terry Black’s Family Plans $63M Hotel in San Antonio

Some haze cleared this week from one of San Antonio’s smokiest upcoming developments.

Black Family Hospitality, founded by the children of Lockhart pitmaster Terry Black, filed plans on Monday to spend $63 million on a three-story hotel and restaurant over a garage and bathhouse at 1411 Alling Street in San Antonio, according to a project filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

The hotel will be named the Mandeville, according to the project filing. The plan doesn’t detail the exact size of the hotel, but Terry Black’s BBQ co-owner Mark Black estimated in February that it will have more than 40 rooms, according to local reports. Work is scheduled to start this September and end by June 2028.

TDLR filings are preliminary and may change.

The 1.4-acre site, which the family acquired in 2021 for an undisclosed price as 4M Broadway LLC, is at the corner of Alling and Broadway Street near the Pearl District. The Blacks secured approval from the city in 2024 for the initial elements of the development, which will include a restaurant, courtyard and parking garage along with the hotel and bathhouse.

A branch of Terry Black’s BBQ will operate next to the hotel, in addition to a nonbarbecue restaurant, the family previously said. The Mandeville will be independently operated, according to local reports.

The bathhouse, dubbed The Depths, will include two hot spas, two cold spas, two cold plunges, a large linear spa and a salt float, according to a separate project filing submitted by Black Family Hospitality in February. The 9,800-square-foot spa will also have a steam room, a cold mist room, massage rooms and a locker room, and construction is expected to cost $9 million.

The Terry Black’s BBQ chain emerged after a family feud split the Original Black’s Barbecue, founded in 1932. The two companies are competitors.

Black Family Hospitality did not respond to a request for comment.