A new $78 million apartment community has opened at Brooks on San Antonio's South Side, bringing 349 residential units to the redeveloped former Air Force base. Artana at Brooks marks NRP Group's third multifamily development with Brooks and is described as the first to rise beyond the campus's original footprint.
According to The Business Journals, the new community opened this week, with its entrance photographed Tuesday, October 20, 2026, in San Antonio — a photo credited to Gabe Hernandez. The report frames Artana as a milestone for Brooks, extending multifamily development past the boundaries of the original base campus for the first time.
Artana at Brooks is a 349-unit community offering one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment homes, according to NRP Group. The property's amenities include a pool, courtyard, fitness center, fire pit, interior and exterior bike parking, a dog park with an indoor pet wash station, and a business center, the company says.
A Years-Long Path From Groundbreaking to Opening
The project traces back to November 2023, when it was announced under the working name Project Yeager, according to Brooks. That same source describes the $78 million project as including the 349-unit market-rate community dubbed The Artana alongside a retail center near the Loop 410 and Interstate 37 interchange.
Earlier coverage from bizjournals.com in November 2023 described the development as 350 apartments coming to the South Side near Brooks, with completion planned for 2027 — figures that differ slightly from the 349-unit count now reported for the finished project. The dossier does not resolve why the unit count shifted between the initial announcement and this week's opening.
Third Project Ties Into Brooks's Broader Redevelopment Push
Artana is NRP Group's third multifamily development built in partnership with Brooks, following the 353-unit Haynes Lofts community, according to prior South Side shakeup coverage from Hoodline. That same reporting detailed another NRP-Brooks project, Lucia at Brooks, which broke ground in March 2026 and was described as bringing hundreds of rental homes to the area as part of the 1,300-acre campus's long-term redevelopment strategy. A BusinessWire release from that same month pegged Lucia's cost at $72 million, a figure distinct from Artana's reported $78 million value, and the dossier does not reconcile the two project totals.
Brooks, a redeveloped former Air Force base, has positioned itself as a mixed-use hub for jobs and housing on San Antonio's South Side, with Artana's arrival beyond the base's original footprint signaling an expansion of that strategy.
Artana Lands in a Soft San Antonio Rental Market
The opening comes as San Antonio's apartment market faces notable headwinds. Vacancy surged 160 basis points during the first quarter of 2026 and 220 basis points year over year, according to Northmarq. The same report notes that first-quarter negative absorption of 1,700 units drove much of that increase, even though trailing 12-month absorption remained positive at 745 units, and that asking rents declined for a fourth consecutive quarter to a five-year low.
Citywide vacancy was reported at 15.7%, described as the highest among major multifamily markets, by San Antonio Report. That outlet also found that 72% of San Antonio properties were offering some form of tenant concession. Still, the same report notes San Antonio adds 40,000 to 50,000 new residents annually, with one industry voice quoted saying, “I do not anticipate it staying that way,” regarding the current oversupply.
Construction activity has been slowing in response. Multifamily deliveries are forecast to total just 2,600 units citywide in 2026, a 63% decline from 2025, per the Northmarq report, with only about 800 units scheduled to deliver over the remainder of the year. Colliers reported that apartment deliveries reached 1,731 units by the end of the second quarter, with 2,638 units under construction after twelve consecutive quarters of declining construction activity, while market occupancy rose to 93.1% — though Class A properties remained the main exception to that broader improvement.
