Businesses and residents in San Antonio are celebrating what a temporary makeover of Alamo Plaza last weekend revealed about the potential to bring locals back to the city's tourist mecca.
Organized by the city of San Antonio and Team Better Block, the Alamo Plaza Better Block Project held last weekend, "drove a surge in sales and foot traffic
for businesses along Alamo Street, encouraging store owners to believe a
makeover of the plaza could attract many more locals in the future," reports Neal Morton. Better Block got its start in Dallas and has since inspired inexpensive
and experimental complete streets projects throughout America.
With $1 million recently approved by voters for upgrading the historic grounds, "after welcoming the mixed crowds of locals and the expected summer
tourists, retailers saw dollar signs in the vision of a new plaza."
"Though the opportunity for growth delighted retailers," writes Morton, "the presence
of even more commercialism on the hallowed ground rankled
some Alamophiles."
FULL STORY: Better Block event has businesses seeing dollar signs

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