The San Antonio artist, creative director and educator oversaw the effort to create the towering piece celebrating the city's love affair with the Spurs.
Top stories include a tornado that touched down in the Alamo City Thursday, fraud lawsuits filed against a local financial guru and a planned 50-foot mural celebrating the Spurs.
The project comes with a $100,000 honorarium, which Benavides will use to cover the cost of creating one of downtown's highest-profile pieces of public art.