Where San Antonio Meets #Hemisfair
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Downtown is the heart and soul of our City, and we desire to make it everybody’s neighborhood. Featuring iconic landmarks such as the Tower of Americas, the Alamo and the Riverwalk, San Antonio must protect its most vital and historical resources, and invest to create a more desirable place for locals.
The vision for the redevelopment of Hemisfair is to create a vital mixed use area, centered on a city park which maintains and revitalizes the historic buildings while reconnecting the area to the adjacent neighborhoods and providing new mixed use development, compatible in scale with adjacent properties. Hemisfair will continue to be an accessible neighborhood park that unifies the city, serves as a community gathering place, and provides an opportunity for citizens to work, live, and play. Hemisfair will offer many special places and uses; some active, some quiet.
This vision will foster community-wide impact by recognizing the Hemisfair area as critical connecting tissue between previously disengaged sectors of the urban core. Capitalizing on the success of HemisFair ’68, the plan’s improvements will encourage economic vitality, pride and a sense of community for generations of San Antonians now and yet to come.
Hemisfair does not manage the Tower of the Americas. For information on the Tower, you can visit their website (http://www.toweroftheamericas.com) or call (210) 223-3101.
The vision for the redevelopment of Hemisfair is to expand the park and improve its quality while creating a vibrant mixed use area, and revitalizing the historic buildings.
Guiding Principles
Connectivity: Linkages within Hemisfair and to and from the adjacent areas are necessary to the Park’s viability. Connectivity will address pedestrian, cycle, wheelchair, vehicular and other modes of transportation. Also required for its viability will be sufficient parking.
Development: Mixed use development to include mixed income housing, commercial, institutional and civic uses is planned.
Green Space: Expand and preserve green space.
Balance: The City Council-approved Master Plan offers a balance between green space and development.
Preservation: Protection of historic buildings is mandatory. However, the strategic removal of non-historic or temporary buildings may be considered. Relating development to existing historic buildings is critical to the creation of a unique and urban environment.
Sustainability: The redevelopment within Hemisfair and its surrounding area will consider environmental, social and economic impacts in order to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, now and for future generations.
Leadership: The redevelopment of Hemisfair requires long term dedicated civic leadership to be successful and sustainable.
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