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Weeks after KSAT’s Know My Neighborhood series highlighted safety concerns on a street in Denver Heights, the City of San Antonio made improvements to slow traffic down.
Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church in Denver Heights.
Denver Heights is home to at least 10 churches that are more than 100 years old. The churches have played more than a religious role in the lives of the neighborhood's generations.
Beginning in the 1920s, Denver Heights was known as a predominantly African American neighborhood full of doctors, lawyers, teachers, lawmakers and other professionals.
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RELATED: U.S. home prices soared in January by most in seven yearsMost Bexar County residential property owners will get a notice this week of their new valuations, and they are up an average of 6.9% despite lockdowns, shutdowns and vanishing paychecks. “Pandemic or no pandemic, there’s a market that’s quite active,” said Chief Appraiser Mike Amezquita, with the Bexar County Appraisal District. “It’s our job to follow the market and try to reflect what values are doing in each and every neighborhood.”AdEven Amezquita anticipated values would cool off this year. “We like living in a historic district,” White said. The deadline for most to file an appeal in Bexar County is May 17.
