The Mosaic

The Mosaic is a mixed use property featuring retail/restaurant space on the ground level and 120 apartments on the top three floors. Construction began in 2012 and was completed in November of 2013.

We were contracted to perform all the steel stud framing, door frames, doors & hardware, wood trim, fire caulking, suspended ceilings and many other accessories such as lighted mirrors, towel bars, shower curtain rods, shelving, restroom accessories and partitions.

One of the unique features of the common corridors and elevator lobbies are the steel frame & steel mesh suspended cloud ceilings that were custom made, finished & installed by Petrus. You can view more of the complex at www.themosaiconbroadway.com

So Bro Pizza is a project at The Mosaic building at 1915 Broadway that is currently under construction and should be open sometime in late January 2014. Some of it’s unique features are the huge pizza oven, 23’ high ceilings, curved bar height walls and the curved sheetrock ceiling above the Pizza Bar.

In 2011 Petrus Interior Systems was contracted to replace 485 refinished entry doors and hardware at the historic Palacio Del Rio hotel in downtown San Antonio on the Riverwalk, well over 1000 doors total.

This work was part of a $34 Million renovation by Zachry Construction. The first phase consisted of the complete demolition and remodel of all 485 Guestrooms.

You can read more about the project in an article at the Hilton Hotels website.

The City of San Antonio wanted to remodel and start using this historical building for various functions, but had a problem. Both sets of the huge double doors (8′ wide x 12′ high x 3″ thick) on the East and West sides opened into the building and the City’s fire codes require that they open out for fire escape.

We were asked to remove the door frames, doors & trim and re-install them so that they would swing out. Since the stone blocks that make up the exterior wall were 24″ wide we had to custom build a 12” wide door jamb to cover the raw stone on the inside of the building and faux paint it to match.

Gutzon Borglum was a sculptor and designed Mt. Rushmore from this building. Read more about this building and its history in this article at uiw.edu. Also, more details on the renovation can be found in this recent Express-News article.