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‘We’re going to knock on doors’: Neighborhood rallies to save SAISD school from closure
Read full article: ‘We’re going to knock on doors’: Neighborhood rallies to save SAISD school from closurePershing Elementary School in Government Hill will remain open as the community unites with a plan to increase enrollment next school year.
GrayStreet Partners, Fulcrum release vision for Broadway East development
Read full article: GrayStreet Partners, Fulcrum release vision for Broadway East developmentLocal developers GrayStreet Partners and Fulcrum Development are teaming up to create a 15-acre mixed-use project in the Government Hill neighborhood.
San Antonio’s real estate market steadied out since pandemic, but Texas is top of mind for buyers
Read full article: San Antonio’s real estate market steadied out since pandemic, but Texas is top of mind for buyersOne agent said the real estate market has steadied out since the start of the pandemic, but prices you see now across San Antonio may still be higher than they were a few years ago.
New Southern comfort food restaurant Claudine to open near Pearl on Oct. 12
Read full article: New Southern comfort food restaurant Claudine to open near Pearl on Oct. 12The San Antonio Couple behind Little Em’s Oyster Bar and Up Scale is opening their third restaurant in Government Hill near the Pearl.
‘We’re coming out of this’: CPS Energy chief says customers seeing relief, but repairs have been challenging
Read full article: ‘We’re coming out of this’: CPS Energy chief says customers seeing relief, but repairs have been challengingSAN ANTONIO – The power is back on for the majority of CPS Energy customers in San Antonio who have had to battle outages, among other challenges, during this week’s devastating winter storm. That number is down from more than 200,000 customers who went without power for days as temperatures plunged this week. The majority of those outages were caused by the Energy Reliability Council of Texas’s mandated rolling power outages. AdAfter ERCOT stopped the mandate, Gold-Williams said the number of customers affected dropped to about 10,000. The customers who remain without power in San Antonio, she said, are dealing with equipment failure or ice storm damage.
SA residents angered by ‘misinformation’ from CPS Energy on power restoration following winter storm
Read full article: SA residents angered by ‘misinformation’ from CPS Energy on power restoration following winter stormSAN ANTONIO – As Lea Ann Tinney shivered through a Monday without power inside her home in the Government Hill neighborhood, she consulted a CPS Energy power outage map that stated only six customers in her 78208 zip code were affected. Tinney then walked outside and counted at least five other homes that were without power at that very moment. Gold-Williams and a utility spokesman defended CPS’s response to the winter storm, pointing out that it was a significant weather event followed by a prolonged period of freezing temperatures. “CPS Energy is going to continue to analyze its performance, how we did, what else we could do, but there are just natural limitations to the system that normally works extremely well 360 days a year,” Gold-Williams said. A utility spokesman said Tuesday afternoon that it had advised customers to begin conserving energy usage as early as last Wednesday, ahead of the storm that hit Sunday night.
New life given to historical Gibbs home in Government Hill
Read full article: New life given to historical Gibbs home in Government HillGibbs, who after the Civil War got into the land and railroad business in San Antonio, built it. He owned about 10,000 acres of land and built his home as one of the first in the now historical Government Hill neighborhood. Which at the time was the tallest building.”Fullmer said the home was a prominent social symbol where Gibbs loved to host social gatherings. “Gibbs was a land guy, we are land people and it’s a new tradition to carry on,” Fullmer said. “The big issue was the wood,” Fullmer said.