Developer wants to renovate Aurora Apartments and build new complex nearby for residents FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 Renderings of the new apartment complex San Antonio developer Mitch Meyer would build for current tenants at the Aurora Apartments.Courtesy of Mitch MeyerShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 Renderings of the new apartment complex San Antonio developer Mitch Meyer would build for current tenants at the Aurora Apartments.Courtesy of Mitch MeyerShow MoreShow Less 5of5 Amid a peppering of college buildings and hospital facilities, the grand Aurora Apartments high-rise looming over Crockett Park looks like a vestige of another era. The ornate “apartment hotel” at 509 Howard St. opened in 1930. Advertisements touted “tile bathrooms, cedar closets, flowing ice water and other smart perfections” at a “residence address of distinction.”