International Bank of Commerce (IBC) Bank plans to turn one of its downtown office buildings into a hotel, according to an application filed with the City of San Antonio.

IBC Bank is one of the latest property owners in downtown San Antonio scrambling to find new uses for vacant space.

IBC Bank applied to turn one of its buildings at 175 E. Houston St. into a 300 key hotel. The Laredo-based bank owns two buildings at IBC Centre, an office complex built in 1984 between the River Walk and Houston, St. Mary’s and Travis streets.

AT&T had used the buildings as its headquarters before the company moved to Dallas. The taller building on Houston and St. Mary’s Street could soon become a hotel.

As of Tuesday, city records show that a review of the application was approved Monday and the city i

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