Shotgun House Coffee Roasters is opening a new location next week at 1010 S. Flores St., its second less than a year after it opened the original location on the West Side in April of last year.
Archives for March 2019
Men’s salon slated for Houston Street
It appears the Savoy building on East Houston Street is getting a barbershop to go along with Royal Blue Grocery.
Still want ‘Hamilton’ tickets? It’ll take some work
A limited number of “Hamilton” tickets, which range from $75 to $195.50, will be available Friday morning at the Majestic Theatre.
Austin’s Royal Blue Grocery wants to open multiple stores in downtown San Antonio
Royal Blue Grocery of Austin is about a month away from opening its first San Antonio store at 122 E. Houston St.
Is San Antonio doing enough to address displacement?
Housing advocates have described the city’s “risk mitigation policy,” which aids displaced households, as a Band-Aid on the larger issue of gentrification. City officials say the policy is one piece of a big-picture strategy.
Guadalupe Plaza’s partial fence concept gets mixed reaction
The new concept plan for Guadalupe Plaza features partial fencing in certain areas of the near West Side public space.
Bond project to combine Lockwood, Dignowity parks into one
By late next year, Lockwood and Dignowity parks—two neighboring, near-East Side green spaces separated by Burnett Street—will become one park in a $4.1 million project.
In San Antonio, what qualifies as displacement?
If you’d asked me five years ago what my definition of displacement or gentrification was, my answer would be much different than it is today.
City improves downtown San Antonio housing incentive database
To the city of San Antonio’s credit, the downtown housing database now qualifies as being useful.
The Alamo remembered at dawn
More than 200 people, many of whom were direct descendants of the garrison that defended the Alamo in 1836, gathered in front of the Cradle of Texas Liberty Wednesday morning for the annual Dawn at the Alamo ceremony.