The Visitor’s River
Part 2 of a four-part Urban Nerd series exploring the three distinct personalities of the San Antonio River Walk. I’m embarrassed to admit this now, but for a long time, I had a terrible attitude about the River Walk. Not the whole thing. Just the part I thought didn’t belong to me. I saw the […]
The Three River Walks
Part 1 of a four-part Urban Nerd series exploring the three distinct personalities of the San Antonio River Walk. When I was a kid, I went on a school field trip to see the Alamo. Like most San Antonio students, that was my first real trip downtown. But what actually stuck with me wasn’t the […]
The Convention Center Expansion: SA Sports District Project 1 of 7
Article 6 of a 12-part series by the Urban Nerd (Lorenzo Gomez) The first five articles in this series were all about cutting through the confusion. We talked about who’s really paying for what, why the city’s deficit is a different problem entirely, and why so many people get lost in the Marvel Garble. And […]
Urban Momentum: Broadway East, BESA District
Would you like to see the San Antonio of the future? I can show it to you today. Meet Broadway East, a luxury-forward, pedestrian-friendly district rising just across from The Pearl. For years, the block directly east of The Pearl, bordered by Broadway and Pearl Parkway, has sat quiet. On one side is a nationally […]
Urban Momentum: Southtown Aldea
Would you like to see the San Antonio of the future? I can show it to you today. Meet Southtown Aldea, a bold new development reshaping the edge of downtown San Antonio. Just across the street from Hemisfair, at the intersection of Lavaca and César E. Chávez, Southtown Aldea is stepping into one of the […]