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Neighborhoods and districts of San Antonio
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The city of San Antonio in the U. S. state of Texas is composed of a number of neighborhoods and districts, spreading out surrounding the central Downtown Area. During the Holiday season the day after Thanksgiving Day San Antonio does a Christmas lighting to welcomes the holidays, is bounded by Josephine St to the north, Colorado St to the west, I-10/U. S. 90, Probandt, and S Alamo St to the south, and I-37/ U. S.281, the enclaves of Alamo Heights and Terrell Hills are included in this area. This area also includes a swath of Broadway from Mulberry to Loop 410. Inside this area is also Mahncke Park, McNay Art Museum, each neighborhood has distinctive housing characteristics, from Victorian in Beacon Hill to French Eclectic, Neoclassical and Italian Renaissance in Monte Vista. Tobin Hill is located just north of downtown San Antonio, this area is a mix of residential, commercial, and cultural space. Olmos Park Terrace, a neighborhood that was granted district status by the City of San Antonio in 2007. It borders the districts of Midtown, Uptown Broadway, and Downtown, Midtown is also where San Antonios gay village is located. Gay bars such as The Saint, Heat, Sparkys Pub, Pegasus, Uptown, officially Uptown Central, consists of a very large area separated into two large segments. Uptown Broadway is home to an area of old money bedroom communities. These communities are Alamo Heights, Olmos Park, Lincoln Heights, combined the total population of these three communities is almost 16,000 people on 4.2 square miles. That is a density of nearly 4,000 people per square mile, famous people that reside in Uptown Broadway include Thomas Gibson, Tommy Lee Jones, and many others. This area is home to quite a few residential buildings. Uptown Broadway is also home to many boutiques as well as two very prominent museums, the McNay Art Museum and the Witte Museum. The University of the Incarnate Word is on the fringe of Uptown Broadway. The new Park North Plaza includes an Alamo Drafthouse movie theater, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, many restaurants, Target, Sears, North Star Mall is anchored by Dillards, Macys, J. C. Penney, Saks Fifth Avenue, Forever 21 and The Cheesecake Factory. The San Antonio International Airport is at the center of Uptown at the intersection of I-410, VIA Metropolitan Transit operates its North Star Transit Center at the intersection of San Pedro Avenue and I-410. Companies based in Uptown San Antonio include Harte-Hanks, Friedrich Air Conditioning, Southwest Business Corporation, North Central is home to many small municipalities landlocked within the city of San Antonio
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Tower of the Americas
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The Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot observation tower-restaurant located in the Hemisfair district on the southeastern portion of Downtown San Antonio, Texas. The tower was designed by San Antonio architect ONeil Ford and was built as the structure of the 1968 Worlds Fair, HemisFair 68. It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until 1996 and it is the tallest building in San Antonio, and the 27th tallest building in Texas. The tower is located in the middle of HemisFair Park and has a deck that is accessible by elevator for a fee. There is also a lounge and revolving restaurant at the top of the tower provides panoramic views of the city. The fastest recorded time up the towers 952 steps is 5 minutes 18 seconds on January 29,1981. Construction of the tower began on August 9,1966 and was completed in approximately 18 months, the tophouse of the building was constructed at ground level and hoisted to the top of the poured concrete shaft. As the tophouse was being hoisted into place, on October 30,1967 some of the used to hoist it snapped, leaving it resting on. Eventually, oil field pipes were used in lieu of cables to complete the job, in 2004, Landrys Restaurants, Inc. won the bid for a 15-year lease to manage and operate the property for its owner, the City of San Antonio. Additionally, Landrys spent another $4 million to add approximately 200% more space for ground level attractions such as a gift shop and cafe. Renovations were completed and the tower re-opened with the new Eyes Over Texas Restaurant, Bar 601, the restaurant rotates slowly, and observation deck entry is included in the cost of a tower ticket. In September 2007, Landrys converted the Eyes Over Texas Restaurant into one of its Chart House outlets, prior to Landrys, Frontier Enterprises operated the Tower of the Americas restaurant for more than three decades. 750 ft to top of the antenna,579 ft to indoor observation deck. 560 ft to outdoor observation deck,550 ft to restaurant and stationary level. Since 1970 the roof has hosted a 30 meter tall tapered steel mast, in 2007, the three individual antennas were replaced by a 16-Bay master antenna that radiates all three FM signals including the HD signal for KQXT. Clear Channel Radio and Electronics Research Inc. headed up the project along with their contractors and involved the City of San Antonio, the new antenna system improved coverage for all three radio stations. An option existed for years to add facilities for a move in signal on 97.7 to share the site. This was organized by Bret Huggins and David Stewart of Rawhide Radio, transmitters are located between the public areas of the observation deck and the revolving restaurant in equipment bays along with air conditioners and plumbing
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Central business district
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A central business district is the commercial and business centre of a city. In larger cities, it is synonymous with the citys financial district. Both the CBD and the city centre or downtown may also coincide with the central activities district, a citys CBD is usually typified by a concentration of retail and office buildings. The CBD usually has a density higher than the surrounding districts of the city. The CBD is often also the city centre or downtown, Mexico City also has a historic city centre, the colonial-era Centro Histórico, along with two CBDs, the mid-late 20th century Paseo de la Reforma - Polanco, and the new Santa Fe. The shape and type of a CBD almost always reflect the citys history. Cities with maximum building height restrictions often have a historic section quite apart from the financial. It has been said that downtowns are therefore distinct from both CBDs and city centres. CBDs usually have very small resident populations, for example, the population of the City of London declined from over 200,000 in the year 1700 to less than 10,000 today. In some instances, however, CBD populations are increasing as younger professional, the Buenos Aires Central Business District, is the main commercial centre of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. The actual area was the point of first European settlement and its north-south axis runs from Monserrat in the south to Retiro railway station in the north. Its east-west axis runs from Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve and Puerto Madero, the district is the financial, commercial, and cultural hub of Argentina. Its port is one of the busiest in South America, navigable rivers by way of the Río de la Plata connect the port to northeast Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. As a result, it serves as the hub for a vast area of the southeastern region of the South American continent. Tax collection related to the port has caused political problems in the past. The Buenos Aires Human Development Index is likewise high by international standards, the term is used to refer to the business and financial area of a state capital city such as the Sydney CBD, Melbourne CBD, Brisbane CBD, Perth CBD and Adelaide CBD. The city centres of some cities, such as Townsville, Bendigo. More recently, in cities the city centre, which may or may not be distinct from the CBD, is increasingly separately identified
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Greater San Antonio
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San Antonio–New Braunfels is an eight-county metropolitan area in the U. S. state of Texas defined by the Office of Management and Budget. Colloquially referred to as Greater San Antonio, the area straddles South Texas. The official 2011 U. S. Census estimate showed the areas population at 2,194. Austin–Round Rock lies about 80 miles northeast of Greater San Antonio, San Antonio–New Braunfels is the third-largest metro area in Texas, after Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington and Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. It is also the second fastest-growing large metropolitan area in the state, after Austin–Round Rock, there are eight counties that combine to form Greater San Antonio. The MSA covers a total of 7,387 sq. mi.7,340 sq. mi. is land and 47 sq. mi. is water, Greater San Antonio has a number of communities spread out across several counties and regions. Other regions include the Randolph Metrocom and the surrounding counties, San Antonio New Braunfels Schertz Seguin San Antonio–New Braunfels is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. Valero Energy Corp, Tesoro Petroleum Corp, Clear Channel Communications, USAA, NuStar Energy, rush Enterprises is located in New Braunfels. The San Antonio International Airport is located in Uptown San Antonio and it has two terminals and is served by 21 airlines serving 44 destinations including six in Mexico. VIA Metropolitan Transit is the areas public transportation authority, serving the entire City of San Antonio. San Antonio Station serves as the areas Amtrak train station. S, the San Antonio areas largest university is the University of Texas at San Antonio. Other public institutions include the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas A&M University–San Antonio, the city has many private institutions as well, such as Our Lady of the Lake University and St. Marys University on the inner west side. Trinity University and the University of the Incarnate Word are in Midtown, the Culinary Institute of America maintains its third campus in Downtown. The racial makeup of the MSA was 71. 4% White,6. 2% African American,0. 8% Native American,1. 4% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,16. 6% from other races, and 3. 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 50. 4% of the population, the median income for a household in the MSA was $40,764 and the median income for a family was $46,686. Males had an income of $32,143 versus $24,007 for females. The per capita income for the MSA was $18,713, List of cities in Texas Texas census statistical areas List of Texas metropolitan areas Texas Triangle
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Interstate 37
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Interstate 37 is a 143. 0-mile Interstate Highway located within the southern portion of the U. S. state of Texas. The highway was first designated in 1959 as a route between Corpus Christi and San Antonio, construction in the urban areas of Corpus Christi and San Antonio began in the 1960s and the segments of the Interstate Highway in rural areas were completed by the 1980s. Prior to I-37, the route between Corpus Christi and San Antonio was served by a combination of State Highway 9 from Corpus Christi to Three Rivers, as a result of the construction of I-37, SH9 was removed from the State Highway System. The highway begins in Corpus Christi at US181 and SH35 and heads north to San Antonio, beyond I-35, the freeway continues as US281 to northern San Antonio as a major freeway. In Corpus Christi, the highway access to the downtown area, the Port of Corpus Christi. The route provides an important connection between I-35 and the Texas Gulf Coast as well as one of the few limited-access hurricane evacuation routes away from the southern Texas coast, Interstate 37 starts near the Gulf Coast in Corpus Christi and heads northwest toward San Antonio. It links South Texas to the parts of the state via I-69E, US77. The highway functions as one of the few freeway hurricane evacuation routes for the southern Texas coast and it roughly parallels US181, which both begins and ends at I-37, and US281. Unofficially, I-37 begins at an intersection with Shoreline Boulevard on the edge of Corpus Christi Bay and it then heads west as a surface street for three blocks where it becomes entrance and exit ramps which connect to the freeway. I-37 begins officially at the point for these ramps, which is part of an interchange complex that also represents the southern ends of US181. It heads west from US181 through Corpus Christi and intersects two freeways, SH286 and SH358, the highway turns towards the northwest after the SH358 interchange roughly parallel to the south of the Nueces River. Just prior to leaving the Corpus Christi city limits, it intersects and has a concurrency with US77. US77 merges with I-37 as a freeway from the south, the Interstate continues to the northwest as US77 continues to the northeast. I-37 transitions to a setting once outside of the Corpus Christi city limits on its way to Mathis. It continues on to the northwest and intersects US59 east of George West and it begins paralleling US281 to the east before the two intersect and have a concurrency north of Three Rivers near Choke Canyon Reservoir. U. S. Highway 281 Alternate splits off from I-37 near Sunniland, the two routes remain concurrent until US281 splits off to head to Pleasanton, while I-37 bypasses the city to the east. After US281 leaves towards the northwest, I-37 turns to the north towards San Antonio, as I-37 enters the San Antonio city limits, it intersects the northern terminus of US181. Continuing to the north, it intersects I-410, the loop around San Antonio
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Interstate 10 in Texas
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Interstate 10 is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U. S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border with New Mexico, through El Paso, San Antonio and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange, Texas. It is also the longest stretch of highway with a designation within a single state. After widening was completed in 2008, a portion of the highway west of Houston is now believed to be the widest in the world. There is a section in China on the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway. More than a third of I-10s entire length is located in Texas alone, likewise, Orange is only 789 miles from the eastern terminus of I-10 in Jacksonville, Florida. I-10 replaced and runs concurrently with U. S. Highway 85 from the New Mexico border up until the two diverge at mile marker 13. The two highways parallel each other for several miles until US85 continues to south to the border with Mexico. Prior to the Interstate Highway system, US85 ran concurrent with US80 from the New Mexico border until the two diverged in Downtown El Paso, when I-10 was constructed in downtown El Paso, several blocks were demolished, and a sub-grade trench was built for the freeway. A series of overpasses now carry the preexisting north-south surface streets over the east-west stretch of I-10 through downtown, I-10 replaced US80 through El Paso and to the southeast and east to the present day junction of I-10 and I-20. US80 along this route has been removed from the highway system in favor of I-10. At the junction with I-20, I-10 replaced US290 eastward to the present day junction of I-10 and this section of US290 was deleted from the highway system. From this point to near Comfort, I-10 replaced State Highway 27, SH27 still exists along this stretch, mostly paralleling I-10 to the south. From Comfort southeast to San Antonio, I-10 directly replaced US87, I-10 generally follows the alignment of US87 on the northwest side of San Antonio into downtown. Southeast of downtown, I-10 curves back to the northeast to connect with the alignment of US90. Construction of portions of I-10 were well underway and completed prior to the commissioning of the highway in 1959, the section from Culebra Road to Woodlawn Avenue opened as the first freeway in San Antonio in 1949, but was signed as US87. Expansion and construction continued in the 1950s, but the bulk of the construction occurred in the 1960s after the interstate was commissioned, the current alignment was completed by 1968. Rapid growth in San Antonio has resulted in the highway becoming quickly inadequate
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Shops at Rivercenter
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The Shops at Rivercenter is a shopping mall located in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States along the citys River Walk. It is anchored by Macys, H&M, as well as a 38-story,1, the mall was purchased in 2005 by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation. The Shops at Rivercenter opened in 1988 as Rivercenter Mall, with San Antonios first Lord & Taylor department store, part of the downtown redevelopment included an extension of San Antonios famed River Walk into the Rivercenter lagoon. Lord & Taylor, then owned by May Department Stores, was converted into a Foleys in 1989, in 2006, the space became Macys after Macys parent, Federated Department Stores, bought May Department Stores. The structure that houses Dillards, an AMC Theatres, as well as other shops opened in 1887 as a freestanding Joskes at the corner of Alamo. Several expansions from 1909 to 1953 brought the space to 551,000 square feet, Joskes closed the flagship store for remodeling in 1987, planning to reopen in 1988, to coincide with the Rivercenter opening. But Dillards acquired the Joskes chain shortly after the store closed for remodeling, the massive flagship store was divided up, with Dillards occupying only a portion of the five-level building. The remaining area of the building was converted into space and a retail atrium for Rivercenter. Even with the division of the building into other uses, portions of the structure, in October 2006, plans were revealed to redevelop the property over a number of years. Five-star restaurants and more outdoor seating would be added in the first phase of redevelopment, the redevelopment of the Joskes space would be the next phase. A luxury hotel would be added in the last phase, forcing a parking garage to close. San Antonios Historic and Design Review Commission approved the redevelopment plan on October 4,2006, a grand re-opening is planned for 2008. It was reported in June 2008 that Ashkenazy purchased the historic Joskes building from Dillards, in 2016 the old Joskes building was added as a new modern wing of the mall with notable tenants such as Dave & Busters, H&M, Starbucks, and Johnny Rockets. The mall was renamed to Shops at Rivercenter in the same year, Rivercenter website Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation website New owner needed to breathe fresh life into downtown mall, San Antonio Business Journal, September 17,2004. Rivercenter Mall will be put on sales block, San Antonio Business Journal, April 17,1998
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Macy's
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Macys, originally R. H. Macy & Co. is a department store owned by Macys, Inc. It is one of two owned by the company, with the other being Bloomingdales. Macys has conducted the annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City since 1924 and has sponsored the citys annual Fourth of July fireworks display since 1976, Macys Herald Square is one of the largest department stores in the world. The value of Herald Square has been estimated at around $3 billion, in 2015 Macys was the largest U. S. department store company by retail sales. Macys was the 15th-largest retailer in the United States for 2014 by revenue and they all failed, but he learned from his mistakes. On the companys first day of business on October 28,1858 sales totaled US$11.08, equal to $306.15 today. From the beginning, Macys logo has included a star, which comes from a tattoo that Macy got as a teenager when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship and it also offered a money back guarantee, although it accepted only cash into the 1950s. The store also produced its own clothing for both men and women, assembled in an on-site factory. In 1875, Macy took on two partners, Robert M. Valentine, a nephew, and Abiel T, la Forge of Wisconsin, who was the husband of a cousin. Macy died in 1877 from inflammatory kidney disease, la Forge died the following year, and Valentine died in 1879. This latter 5-story building was purchased by Robert H. Macys ignored the tactic, and simply built around the building, in 1912, Isidor Straus died in the sinking of the Titanic at the age of 67 with his wife, Ida. The original Broadway store was designed by architects De Lemos & Cordes, was built in 1901–02 by the Fuller Company and has a Palladian facade, but has been updated in many details. There were further additions to the west in 1924 and 1928, and the Seventh Avenue building in 1931, all designed by architect Robert D. Kohn, the newer buildings were increasingly Art Deco in style. In 2012, Macys began the first full renovation of the iconic Herald Square flagship store at a reported cost of US$400,000,000, STUDIO V Architecture, a New York-based firm, was the overall Master Plan architect of the project. STUDIO Vs fresh design of the department store raised controversy over the nature of contemporary design, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The store has several wooden escalators still in operation, the problem of pre-existing buildings also presented itself when Macys built a store on Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, in the New York City borough of Queens. This resulted in a unique round department store on 90 percent of the lot, Macys no longer fully occupies this building, which now contains the Queens Place Mall, with Macys Furniture Gallery as a tenant, instead it moved its full outlet to the nearby Queens Center. This relocation was the result of Macys merger with Federated Department Stores, the parent company of Abraham & Straus, in 1994, more distant acquisitions included Lasalle & Koch, Davison-Paxon-Stokes, L. Bamberger & Co
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IMAX
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IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection standards developed in Canada by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size, since 2002, some feature films have been converted into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres and some have also been partially shot in IMAX. IMAX is the most widely used system for special-venue film presentations, as of June 2016, there were 1,102 IMAX theatres in 69 countries. The desire to increase the impact of film has a long history. In 1929, Fox introduced Fox Grandeur, the first 70 mm film format, in the 1950s, the potential of 35 mm film to provide wider projected images was explored in the processes of CinemaScope and VistaVision, following multi-projector systems such as Cinerama. While impressive, Cinerama was difficult to install, during Expo 67 in Montreal, the National Film Board of Canadas In the Labyrinth and Fergusons Man and the Polar Regions both used multi-projector, multi-screen systems. Each encountered technical difficulties led them to found a company called Multiscreen. As it became clear that a single, large-screen image had more impact than multiple smaller ones and was a viable product direction. An IMAX 3D theatre also is in operation near the former Expo 67 site at the Montreal Science Centre in the Port of Old Montreal, tiger Child, the first IMAX film, was demonstrated at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. The first permanent IMAX installation was built at the Cinesphere theatre at Ontario Place in Toronto and it debuted in May 1971, showing the film North of Superior. The installation is still in place, however, Ontario Place is on hiatus for redevelopment, during Expo 74 in Spokane, Washington, an IMAX screen that measured 27 m ×20 m was featured in the US Pavilion. It became the first IMAX Theatre to not be partnered with any brand of movie theaters. About five million visitors viewed the screen, which covered the total visual field when looking directly forward. This created a sensation of motion in most viewers, and motion sickness in some, much to the dismay of the majority of Spokane and the disapproval of the IMAX Corporation itself, it will be demolished to make way for a parking lot. Another IMAX 3D theater was built in Spokane, not too far from where the original was. However, its screen-size is less than half that of the original, due to protests, the IMAX Corporation has been able to remodel the area with the city, and turn the U. S. Pavilion itself into the first permanent outdoor IMAX screen, the first permanent IMAX Dome installation, the Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Dome Theatre at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, opened in San Diegos Balboa Park in 1973, the first permanent IMAX 3D theatre was built in Vancouver, British Columbia for Transitions at Expo 86, and was in use until September 30,2009
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