2009

The Centro San Antonio Amigos turn ten in January, a special anniversary that celebrates a decade of service improving downtown through the Ambassador, Maintenance, and Streetscaping programs.

The Downtown Alliance of San Antonio (DTA) and Centro San Antonio (Centro) launched www.downtownsanantonio.org – a new Web site providing visitors, residents and business owners a wealth of online resources for navigating and exploring downtown San Antonio. Designed and produced by local, award-winning branding firm Toolbox Studios, Inc., the new site categorizes and maps downtown destinations using Google’s Map tools, and is poised to become the definitive online resource for the city center.

The Gunter Hotel's basement was once a men's refuge. In the 1950s, a man could feast at Rathskeller's buffet, get steamed in the Turkish bath and then talk shop while getting a shave, haircut and shoeshine at the hotel's barbershop. Before venturing home, he could stop on the main level to buy jewelry for his wife.

Residents already are moving in, but downtown's first large, newly constructed rental property in decades officially opens today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.