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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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San Antonio
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San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated city in the United States and the second-most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, the city straddles South Texas and Central Texas and is on the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. San Antonio serves as the seat of Bexar County, recent annexations have extended the citys boundaries into Medina County and, though for only a very tiny area near the city of Garden Ridge, into Comal County. Due to its placement, the city has characteristics of other urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas. San Antonio is the center of the San Antonio–New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area, growth along the Interstate 35 and Interstate 10 corridors to the north, west and east make it likely that the metropolitan area will continue to expand. San Antonio was named for Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, the city contains five 18th-century Spanish frontier missions, including The Alamo and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, which were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2015. Other notable attractions include the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, the city is home to the five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and hosts the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest such events in the country. The U. S. Kelly Air Force Base operated out of San Antonio until 2001, the remaining portions of the base were developed as Port San Antonio, an industrial/business park and aerospace complex. San Antonio is home to six Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, at the time of European encounter, Payaya Indians lived near the San Antonio River Valley in the San Pedro Springs area, calling the vicinity Yanaguana, meaning refreshing waters. In 1691, a group of Spanish Catholic explorers and missionaries came upon the river and Payaya settlement on June 13 and they named the place and river San Antonio in his honor. It was years before any Spanish settlement took place, father Antonio de Olivares visited the site in 1709, and he was determined to found a mission and civilian settlement there. He directed Martin de Alarcón, the governor of Coahuila and Texas, differences between Alarcón and Olivares resulted in delays, and construction did not start until 1718. The families who clustered around the presidio and mission formed the beginnings of Villa de Béjar, on May 1, the governor transferred ownership of the Mission San Antonio de Valero to Fray Antonio de Olivares. On May 5,1718 he commissioned the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar on the west side of the San Antonio River, one-fourth league from the mission. On February 14,1719, the Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo proposed to the king of Spain that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands, Galicia, or Havana to populate the province of Texas. By June 1730,25 families had reached Cuba, and 10 families had sent to Veracruz before orders from Spain came to stop the re-settlement. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goraz, the group marched overland from Veracruz to the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, due to marriages along the way, the party now included 15 families, a total of 56 persons. They joined the community established in 1718
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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 410
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Interstate 410 is a loop route of Interstate 10 around San Antonio, Texas. It is identified as Connally Loop in honor of former Texas governor John Connally, Interstate 410 circumnavigates the city of San Antonio, officially beginning and ending at the junction with Interstate 35 on the southwest side of the loop. There are vast differences between the arc and southern arc of the loop. The northern arc serves the heavily urbanized portions of San Antonio and is currently being upgraded to as many as five lanes in each direction. The southern arc resembles more of an interstate as it transverses for the most part undeveloped portions of San Antonio as a two lane interstate. I-410 serves San Antonio International Airport, Lackland AFB, Fort Sam Houston, South Texas Medical Center, Southwest Research Institute, like most cities in Texas, San Antonio was served by a loop around the city long before the arrival of the Interstate Highway System. Loop 13, although not a freeway, served in this role up until the 1950s, the northern half of Loop 13 followed the current path of I-410 while the southern half still exists on the south side of San Antonio. Much of the freeway was proposed during the mid-1950s with construction beginning on the northwest portion of the loop near I-10, in 1960, Loop 13 from I-10 to I-35 was redesignated as Loop 410 for continuity purposes. By 1961 the freeway had been completed from I-35 on the southwest side to just east of US281 near the airport where it continued on to the east as a 4-lane highway to I-35. By 1964 the southern arc had been extended eastward from I-35 to Roosevelt Avenue and was under construction from Roosevelt to I-35 on the east side of the city, due to the city growing primarily to the north, I-410 required upgrading along this stretch. It was expanded to six lanes in the late 1970s and early 1980s from Ingram Road to I-35 North and it was further expanded to six lanes from Ingram to Valley Hi Road in 1987. An additional westbound lane was added from I-10 West to Babcock Road in 1996, exit numbers correspond to mileage from the south junction with I-35. The entire highway is in Bexar County
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Freeway
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A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway, other similar terms include Interstate and parkway. Some of which may be limited-access highways, although this term can refer to a class of highway with somewhat less isolation from other traffic. In countries following Vienna convention, the motorway qualification implies they are forbidden for walking or parking, a controlled-access highway provides an unhindered flow of traffic, with no traffic signals, intersections or property access. They are free of any at-grade crossings with roads, railways, or pedestrian paths. Entrances and exits to the highway are provided at interchanges by slip roads, on the controlled-access highway, opposing directions of travel are generally separated by a median strip or central reservation containing a traffic barrier or grass. Elimination of conflicts with other directions of traffic dramatically improves safety and capacity, controlled-access highways evolved during the first half of the 20th century. Italy opened its first autostrada in 1924 connecting Milan to Varese, Germany began to build its first 30-kilometre autobahn controlled-access highway without speed limits in 1932 between Cologne and Bonn. It then rapidly constructed a system of such roads in anticipation of their use in the Second World War. The first North American freeways opened in the New York City area in the 1920s, Britain, heavily influenced by the railways, did not build its first motorway, the Preston By-pass, until 1958. Most technologically advanced nations feature a network of freeways or motorways to provide high-capacity urban travel, or high-speed rural travel. Many have a national-level or even international-level system of route numbering, exit is marked with another symbol. The definitions of motorway from the OECD and PIARC are almost identical, british Standards Motorway, Limited-access dual carriageway road, not crossed on the same level by other traffic lanes, for the exclusive use of certain classes of motor vehicle. ITE Freeway, A divided major roadway with full control of access and this definition applies to toll as well as toll-free roads. Freeway A, This designates roadways with greater complexity and high traffic volumes. Usually this type of freeway will be found in areas in or near the central core. Freeway B, This designates all other divided roadways with full control of access where lighting is needed, principal arterials may cross through urban areas, serving suburban movements. The traffic is characterized by high speeds and full or partial access control, other roads leading to a principal arterial are connected to it through side collector roads
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Interstate 35 in Texas
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Interstate 35 in Texas is a major north–south Interstate Highway running from Laredo near the United States-Mexico border to the Red River north of Gainesville where it crosses into Oklahoma. Along its route, it passes through the cities of San Antonio, Austin, Interstate 35E heads northeast where it passes through Dallas. Interstate 35W turns northwest to run through Fort Worth, the two branches meet up in Denton to again form Interstate 35, where it continues to the Oklahoma border. Interstate 35W maintains its own sequence of exit numbers, in Texas, Interstate 35 runs for just over 407 miles, which does not include either the 85-mile segment of Interstate 35W or the 97-mile segment of Interstate 35E. Texas contains more miles of the length of Interstate 35 than any other state. The Interstate is currently undergoing a renovation and expansion project. The project includes work on portions of the interstate from Dallas south to Laredo, in Laredo, Interstate 35 is between 6 and 8 main lanes in each direction, dropping to 4 near mile marker 13. After running concurrently with US83 for 20 miles, the highway continues north-northeast across the South Texas Plains, the highway passes through the towns of Cotulla, Dilley, Pearsall, Devine, and Lytle before reaching San Antonio. In San Antonio, I-35 is listed as the PanAm Expressway and it starts out as four lanes from the south until it reaches the Poteet-Jourdanton Freeway, expanding to six to eight mainlanes of travel. Its southern point begins in the southwest corner of town and travels northeast, at the southwest corner of Downtown, it reaches an intersection with Interstate 10, United States Route 87 and United States Route 90. US90 continues east and west from junction, while I-10 westbound/U. S. 87 northbound joins with I-35 northbound along the side of Downtown. In this section, it splits lanes to two levels, a lower one for local traffic and a higher one for express traffic. They briefly rejoin near the northwest corner of Downtown to allow I-10/U. S,87 to split off and go northwest. I-35 continues, resplitting lanes again as it curves around the northwest corner of Downtown, I-35 continues east for a few miles until it begins to curve back to the northeast. It merges with I-410 on its eastern north–south leg from its direction in a triangular interchange. A couple miles later, I-410 will split off onto its northern west–east leg, trucks are restricted from travel in the far left lane of I-35 in either direction throughout the San Antonio area. The restriction covers Bexar, Guadalupe, and Comal Counties, in Austin, Interstate 35 is named Interregional Highway
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