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Esperanza Peace & Justice Center breaks ground on West Side museum

March 30, 2022 By Ben Olivo 61 Comments

Graciela Sanchez, director of the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Museo del Westside takes place on the morning of Tuesday, March, 29, 2022, at the Rinconcito de Esperanza, 816 S. Colorado St., San Antonio, TX, on the city's West Side.

After more than 10 years of planning, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center is a year away from completing its Museo del Westside, a community space dedicated to West Side history and culture inside the old Ruben’s Ice House.

Filed Under: Historic Preservation, Museums, Neighborhoods, West Side Tagged With: Blanca "Blanquita Rosa" Rodríguez, Casa de Cuentos, David Gonzales, Esmeralda Reyes Rocha, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Graciela Sanchez, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Henry Gomez, Houck Foundation, Impact San Antonio, Irma Reyes Guevara, Las Tesoros de San Antonio, M&E Grocery Store, Manuel Reyes Jr., Mariachi Esperanza, MujerArtes, Museo del Westside, National Endowment for the Humanities, Patricia Reyes Zepeda, Rinconcito de Esperanza, Ruben's Ice House, San Antonio Area Foundation, Teri Castillo, West Side, Westside TIRZ

Priced out of Southtown, SAY Sí goes west

March 23, 2021 By Josh Feola 5 Comments

Twenty seven years into its run, the youth arts education nonprofit is preparing to open the doors on its massive new West Side space by Apache Creek later this year.

Filed Under: Art, Education, Neighborhoods, West Side Tagged With: Alazán-Apache Courts, Apache Creek, Bexar County, Blue Star Arts Complex, Charles Butt Foundation, Chili Bowl, Christian Academy of San Antonio, City of San Antonio, David Rogers, Deborah Rogers, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Jon Hinojosa, Nicole Amri, North East School of the Arts, Rinconcito de Esperanza, SAHA, San Antonio Food Bank, San Antonio Housing Authority, San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio Water System, SAY Sí, Shirley Gonzales, Southtown, St. Mary's University, Stephen Garza-Guzman, Tafolla Middle School, West Side, Westside TIRZ

Esperanza center plans rehab of ‘casitas’ to preserve old-style West Side housing

March 4, 2021 By Richard Webner 4 Comments

The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center plans to rehabilitate a cluster of seven little homes at its Rinconcito de Esperanza arts hub 816 S. Colorado St.

The Rinconcito de Esperanza cultural hub has received $1.5 million from the city to rehab seven historic homes into a community health center, an internet access point and a studio for recording oral histories.

Filed Under: Development, Historic Preservation, Neighborhoods, West Side Tagged With: Alazan Courts, Casa de Cuentos, Ed Hinojosa Jr., Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Graciela Sanchez, Legacy at Alazán, MujerArtes Studio, Museo del Westside, NRP Group, Rinconcito de Esperanza, Ruben's Ice House, SAHA, San Antonio Housing Authority, Trinity University, West Side, Westside TIRZ

How to relocate Alazan Courts’ 1,200 residents? San Antonio Housing Authority says it’s complicated, critics say you don’t

October 14, 2020 By Ben Olivo 12 Comments

The Alazan Courts. Photo by Ben Olivo taken October 2019

“Some of them ended up … in a lot of really bad places,” one SAHA commissioner said of East Side residents uprooted the last time the agency redeveloped public housing.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Housing, San Antonio Housing Authority, West Side Tagged With: affordable housing, Alazan Courts, Alazán-Apache Courts, Apache Courts, Cassiano Courts, Choice program, Department of Housing and Urban Development, development, East Meadows, Haven for Hope, Henry Cisneros, HUD, Lincoln Courts, Los Courts, Lynd Copany, Munoz and Company, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Obama, poverty, real estate, relocation, SAHA, San Antonio Housing Authority, San Antonio public housing, West Side

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