The Downtown Alliance works to protect and enhance the values and usage of downtown properties and businesses, making downtown an exciting place to live, work, shop and play.

History & Mission

The Downtown Owners Association was established in 1982 by a group of property owners who recognized the need for an organized group to protect their interests in downtown San Antonio.

DTOA was a principle partner with the City of San Antonio and VIA in the TriParty Project streetscape improvements, and created a public improvement district to pay for the private property owners' participation in the successful effort.

In 1994, the membership restructured the organization, broadening their involvement and the categories of membership to become the Downtown Alliance.

Today, DTA is composed of major property and business owners in the downtown area, and others who also are committed to downtown's revitalization.

Learn more about membership.

New downtown resource:
Looking for places to live, work, shop and play downtown?
Explore our new downtownsanantonio.org Web site!

And a special thanks to the San Antonio CVB.

Meeting San Antonio's 2020 Urban Design Goals

March 7, 2012 5:30pm

UTSA's College of Architecture Public Lecture
Johnathon Barnett
Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning and Director of Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Meeting San Antonio's 2020 Urban Design Goals: Sustainability, Transportation, Growth Management, Neighborhoods, Downtown, Art & Culture

First Sundays for Families: It's a Mod World!

March 4, 2012 1pm-5pm

First Sundays for Families: It's a Mod World!
Sunday, March 4, 1- 5pm
Free for children 12 and under

Celebrate Contemporary Art Month and become inspired by the world around you. Interpret your ideas with interesting materials as you create collages, drawings, paintings and so much more. For more info, visit www.samuseum.org

San Antonio’s First Better Block

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The "Better Block" project is a community art project that temporarily demonstrates how to revitalize and area with bicycle, pedestrian and transit infrastructure mixed with art, culture and street life. As part of the City of San Antonio’s Complete Streets initiative, the community is invited to help build a Better Block at the intersection of East Jones Ave. and Broadway Street near Maverick Park. The Better Block will complement the next Siclovia. This information sheet provides you with dates, times, locations and contact information to get involved. Let’s build a Better Block together!

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