Del Rio Breaks Ground on Las Casitas Senior Housing in San Felipe

The Del Rio Housing Authority and local officials turned the first shovels at a groundbreaking for Las Casitas at 1001 W. Garza St. in the San Felipe neighborhood, with the ceremony taking place Feb. 12, 2026. The event marked the start of a planned senior housing development overseen by the Del Rio Housing Authority.

Members of the Del Rio Housing Authority’s board attended the ceremony along with some local elected officials, who joined authority leaders in the ceremonial shovel turn. An Instagram post about the event said, “This morning we celebrated the groundbreaking of Las Casitas with The Del Rio Housing Authority. ... low-income seniors in the San Felipe,” signaling an affordability focus for the project.

Project materials available publicly at the time of the ceremony describe Las Casitas as senior housing but provide limited scope. One supplied project fragment reads, “The project will deliver 14 o,” but the sentence is truncated and the full meaning of that fragment could not be confirmed from the materials presented at the groundbreaking or in the social post.

Key specifics were not released at the ceremony or in the social caption: the total unit count and unit mix, developer and contractor names, project budget and funding sources, expected construction timeline or completion date, and eligibility or application details for prospective low-income senior residents. The Del Rio Housing Authority is identified as the project sponsor in event materials, but no public fact sheet with those items was included in the available reporting of the Feb. 12 ceremony.

Las Casitas occupies the parcel at 1001 W. Garza St., situating the new development within Del Rio’s San Felipe neighborhood. With organizers describing a target population of low-income seniors in the neighborhood, the project’s missing operational details - including income limits, rent structure and who will manage the property after construction - remain outstanding.

The ground was broken Feb. 12 and the Del Rio Housing Authority has announced the start of construction, while the complete project scope and timeline have not been released. Further information on unit totals, funding and resident application procedures was not included in the materials accompanying the ceremony and remains pending from the Del Rio Housing Authority.