The Josephine – San Antonio, TX

Best Parking Structure - Residential

The Josephine is a residential wrap-around parking garage in San Antonio, Texas, enclosed by uniquely designed apartments and topped with a rooftop amenity level that overlooks the downtown skyline.

What made this project award-worthy is simple: it asked a parking structure to behave like a building-within-a-building. The roof deck had to support amenity structures constructed entirely of precast wall panels, plus major rooftop loads including a pool, fitness and spa spaces, landscaping, and dog runs, all while maintaining tight coordination in a dense urban setting near historic San Antonio.

Fast Facts

• Project: The Josephine Apartment Parking Garage

• Address: 210 W. Josephine, San Antonio, TX 78212

• Project Type: Residential wrap-around parking structure

• Precast Manufacturer: Manco Structures (Schertz, TX)

• Total Precast Scope: ~140,000 SF | ~700 precast components

• Primary Systems: standard + heavy-duty double tees, oversized beams/columns, spandrels, shear walls, stairs, structural wall panels.

The Precast Solution

This project required the garage to be completed before apartment construction could begin, making schedule and delivery sequencing critical.

Key structural choices included:

• Oversized precast beams designed to support structural precast walls on the roof deck and the added dead load of post-applied modular face brick enclosing precast components.

• Heavy-duty double tees engineered for uncommon rooftop demands, including a rooftop pool and other amenity structures such as a weight room, spa, landscaping, and dog runs.

• 8″ thick structural precast wall panels, beams, and columns used to construct rooftop amenity buildings, with the floor system designed to carry both the precast structures and the modular brick load.

• Strategically placed large beams under rooftop walls, and additional framing was added specifically to support pool and amenity features not typically found on a precast roof structure.

• Precast wall panels supporting a built-up roof system, later concealed with architectural face brick for the final architectural expression.

Coordination + Urban Logistics

Located near the heart of old San Antonio, just miles from major tourist destinations, the project demanded careful delivery coordination and staging discipline. With the garage required to finish ahead of apartment work, the team treated logistics as a design constraint, not an afterthought.

Project Team:

• Precast Manufacturer: Manco Structures (Schertz, TX)
• Architect: Davies Collaborative (Austin, TX)
• Engineer of Record: Encotech Engineering Consultants (Austin, TX)
• General Contractor: Bartlett Cocke (San Antonio, TX)
• Precast Specialty Engineer: Consulting Engineers Group (CEG) (San Antonio, TX)
• Owner: Lynd Properties (San Antonio, TX)