In October 2013, Broadway Bank of San Antonio, TX, embarked on a major project to preserve and update the company’s iconic building, located on Loop 410. The structure’s 46-year-old quartz and marble exterior had become cracked, damaged and weathered with time, prompting the bank’s owners to turn to Western Specialty Contractors, Malitz Construction and architect Garza Bomberger & Associates, all of San Antonio, TX, to return the exterior facade to its original luster. Additionally, the owners wanted to coordinate the structure to the bank’s high-rise administration building, located directly next door.
“It was vital to the success of the project that the new quartz tiles match the facade of the bank’s adjacent high-rise administration building,” explained Dan Wicht of Western Specialty Contractors. “The bank’s owners had quartz tile from the Himalayas installed on the administration building when it was constructed to closely match the existing bank building. Three years later, the owners decided to replace all of the exterior tiles on the original building with tiles to match the new administration building. We used the same quarry in the Himalayas, this time supplied by Jolanta Tile of Anaheim, CA, where the bank had ordered quartz tiles for the administration building three years ago.”