In 2024, readers took us all around the metropolis, inviting us out to locations like Laurel Hills, Alamo Ranch, Eastwood Village and Sundown Vista. Past the town limits, we visited Cibolo, Converse, Floresville and Von Ormy.
As we ring within the new yr, we glance again on the neighborhoods we received to know in 2024.
Residents of downtown and the encompassing space made a case for a revival in San Antonio’s city core.
Michelle Vasquez has been a been a trustworthy visitor at downtown bar Bohanan’s for eight years. “Vidal, Rupert and Giselle know make the perfect, ice-cold, skating martinis,” she wrote.
Amid the fast change in Daniel Paul Rivera’s River North neighborhood, the San Antonio Museum of Artwork has been a continuing.
“Attending the occasional lecture there rekindles my curiosity concerning the world and makes me really feel linked to my fellow San Antonians — or my concept of what they are often at their finest,” he wrote. “It is a metropolis with obvious potential, the achievement of which is much from assured.”
A brief stroll up the river takes you to the Creamery District. From the rooftop of her condominium constructing, Stacy Ybarra has a view of downtown and the Pearl — and a front-row seat to the revitalization of what was as soon as the location of the historic Borden Creamery.
“The revitalization of the Creamery District is not only about meals and leisure; it’s a narrative of group revitalization and historic preservation,” she wrote.
In different components of San Antonio, residents had been rediscovering childhood neighborhoods, unearthing reminiscences and seeing their communities via contemporary eyes.
Toni Nelson has fond reminiscences of rising up in Willowwood Estates. She remembers taking part in with the neighborhood youngsters, a few of whom stay pals to today. Even when she moved out, Nelson continued to go to the her mom and the neighborhood, impressed by the pleasure residents had of their group.
When her mom died in November of 2023, lots of her neighbors attended her memorial service.
“As a result of this neighborhood and residential meant a lot to my mom, I made a decision to make my childhood house my retirement house,” Nelson wrote.
A few of Stephanie Smith’s finest reminiscences are from rising up on Randolph Air Pressure Base after which later in a navy group in Common Metropolis. So a long time later, when her mother and father’ neighbors and lifelong pals put their home up on the market, she and her husband had to purchase it.
“A lot of the neighborhood is rather like I keep in mind it, with a tight-knit navy group the place everybody is aware of one another and appears out for his or her neighbors,” she wrote. “Considered one of my neighbors has been right here since I used to be in highschool and has seen my youngsters develop up. Now he will get to see my grandkids.”
And our youngest contributor up to now, Rachel Wang, was busy making childhood reminiscences of her personal. She wrote about befriending her older Woodridge neighbors and attending the close by First Chinese language Baptist Church.
“I like my neighborhood and can all the time keep in mind it, regardless of how outdated I get,” she wrote.
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