Renovation work is moving rapidly along on an historic 11th Street building in Bandera that will house the retail center for Hyo Silver jewelry as the city and the jeweler’s owner patch up differences over a troublesome – and what the owner would call an insulting - permitting process for improvements.
“Right now, I feel like I’ve been treated like a criminal and informed upon to a state authority,” Jo Symons, the owner and founder of Hyo Silver, told Bandera City Council during the public comment section of council’s Thursday, Oct. 17 meeting. “Frankly, I don’t appreciate it, and I’d like ...