Make Ready Food Hall

Part of a mixed-use development in San Antonio, the Make Ready Food Hall reimagines existing buildings and outdoor spaces in a renewed communal setting. Originally a car repair shop, the 10,000-square-foot space, featuring heavy timber wood trusses and vaulted ceilings, was ideal for a food hall. Lake Flato leveraged a unique partnership with the client and Jean Pierre Veillet, the creator of Portland’s Pine Street Market, to develop a vision for the new space. The design team visited food halls nationwide to identify key elements for authenticity and innovation.

In collaboration with Studio8 Architects.

The Soto Building, Texas’ first mass-timber office building designed by Lake Flato and BOKA Powell, anchors the Cavender neighborhood, a mixed-use development that includes Make Ready Food Hall and a variety of restaurants, retail, and entertainment designed for the modern workforce and nearby residents. The building provides a dramatic entrance to the Make Ready Food Hall.

The Make Ready Food Hall showcases a diverse range of eateries, featuring culinary delights from San Antonio’s renowned chefs and rising stars. Housed in the historic Cavender Cadillac dealership, the market offers a unique, multi-restaurant dining experience in a repurposed setting.

Salvaged trusses and an enhanced structure support a new roof and skylights, while the original paint on the columns preserves the building’s historic character.

Make Ready Food Hall features 10 different restaurants and retail venues, with capacity of 300 people. The custom booth benches feature stitching details reminiscent of old leather car seats, paying homage to the building’s history as a former Cadillac dealership.

In the District

Soto Building

The first mass timber office building in Texas, the Soto features dramatic roof canopies that showcase dowel laminated timber (DLT) panels and glue-laminated timber beams to pedestrians below. Angled structural columns also extend to the street, giving people a closer look at the wood and firmly planting the unique structure in the neighborhood. The Soto is the first project in North America to combine mass timber with a masonry façade, which fits well with the surrounding neighborhood. The six-story office building provides Class A office space for various companies and serves as the headquarters for Pabst.

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