1008 Hoefgen Street

Industrial property on Hoefgen Street in the Delaware Street / Southern Pacific tracks corridor, immediately west of the 601 Delaware Street Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. plant. Visible from the H&H factory roof in the lower-left foreground of the 2020 Thunderbirds flyover photograph.

Known tenants

• Alamo Pavers — current or recent operator; paving contractor consistent with the heavy-aggregate industrial character of the structure.
• Concrete company (unidentified) — local lore holds a concrete company operated at this address before Alamo Pavers. The industrial concrete structure visible from the H&H rooftop is consistent with concrete batching, aggregate storage, or related materials processing. The Hoefgen Street address, adjacent to the Southern Pacific tracks, would have been well-suited to aggregate delivery by rail.

Open questions

• What concrete company operated here, and for what period?
• Was the concrete supplier at 1008 Hoefgen a vendor to the 1932 H&H plant construction (George W. Mitchell Construction, Morris Nooman and Wilson architects)?
• What is the current ownership and status of the structure?

Research angles

San Antonio city directories (1920s–1960s, UTSA and SAPL) list businesses by street address — Hoefgen Street entries would name the concrete company and date its operation. Sanborn fire insurance maps for this grid square would show the building footprint and use. Bexar County deed records would trace ownership. The George W. Mitchell Construction records (if surviving) might name concrete subcontractors for the 1932 H&H build.

See also

• 601 Delaware Street — the adjacent H&H factory
• Sanborn Map Company
• Southern Pacific Railroad