|
Featured PID Property:
MIlam Building
|  |
For over 80 years the Milam Building has graced the San Antonio skyline with the dignity and charm recognized by business leaders throughout the city. Today that charm of the 1920's still exists, with added conveniences unmatched at other comparable building locations. While preserving the rich and historical architectural appointments, the lobby offers a host of services. Learn more>
|
|
CENTRO
by the
NUMBERS
|
|
For the first half of FY2011, which includes Q1 of FY2011 (October 1 - December 31, 2010) and For Q2 of FY2011 (January 1, 2011 - March 31, 2011)
#Trash bags picked up: 44,062
#Grafitti Tags Removed: 4,462
#Assists to visitors: 397, 922
#Gum spots removed: 31,235
#Miles Walked (for all services including PID and contracts for River Walk and Museum Reach): 36,424
|
|
|
|
Centro Bi-Annual Newsletter
|
|
Welcome!
 Centro San Antonio, the Public Improvement District in downtown San Antonio, is providing this newsletter to property owners and the public with updates in news, events, and accomplishments specific to Centro San Antonio. This will be published in addition to the monthly enewsletter from Downtown Alliance and Centro San Antonio. Please contact us at (210)225-1831 with questions or comments.
|
|
Centro Mobile Information Kiosk
 The Centro San Antonio Amigos help over 750,000 people a year in downtown San Antonio, and with the introduction of their new mobile information kiosk this past January, they plan to help even more. The new Centro Mobile Information Kiosk trailer will be taken out daily between 9:30am and 8:30pm to various high traffic areas within the Public Improvement District including the Street Car Station on Alamo, Market Square, and La Villita. Additionally, the Centro Mobile Information Kiosk provided support for the City of San Antonio Convention and Visitor Bureau during the construction and renovation of the Visitor Center on Alamo between January 17 and early March. For more information, read the press release online.
|
|
Downtown goes blue to be green
Centro San Antonio, together with the City of San Antonio Downtown Operations Department, introduced 25 recycling receptacles to the streets of downtown. The cans are the same 36-gallon cans used for normal trash, but are blue instead of dark green, and have recycling signage. Cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles can be recycled together. For more information, please read the Express-News article> |
|
New Equipment
 To help keep the streets clean and the environment green, Centro San Antonio received several new pieces of equipment recently: A pressure washing trailer donated by the San Antonio River Authority (SARA). The $19,000 trailer came from a grant awarded SARA by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) regarding mitigating runoff within the San Antonio River's watershed. Centro also received two new Green Machine Sidewalk Sweepers from the Tennant Corporation. |
|
Walk a mile, or 20,000, in their shoes
 Taking out the trash is never on anyone's favorite to-do list at home, but imagine picking up 250 bags of trash a day! The Centro San Antonio Amigos recently released these and other impressive statistics of the services provided in the downtown Public Improvement District during the first quarter of the fiscal year, stretching from Oct 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010.
Learn more> |
|
Resident Spotlight: Joan Korte
DTA and Centro SA interviewed Joan Korte, downtown resident and President of the Downtown Residents Association.
Where are you from? Why did you choose to live downtown? I was born and raised in Queens, New York. I met my husband, an Air Force pilot, while serving as an officer in the USAF Nurse Corps. We came to San Antonio after his retirement in 1974 and moved to the Towers of the Majestic in 1993. We chose downtown after our children left home and we were turning into couch potatoes. We always loved the River Walk so we wanted to be closer to it.
What is the best thing about living downtown? The worst? There is so much to do downtown. The walk ability. The ambience. The people you meet. The restaurants, parades, fiesta, history and the River Walk...
Read more> |
|
|
|
|
