Sarah Esserleiu Khalil, Centro San Antonio Economic Development Director, joined Leading SA to discuss the new public database and the big projects on the horizon.
“We have been working for about a year to build this tool, but really, this comes about because we’ve had a lot of construction and a lot of questions about that construction... We wanted to have a way to see it easily and demystify some of the construction. [The map is] broken down by private and public [projects,]” Khalil said.You don’t need to be sophisticated [or] know terminology about development or construction. You can just go to the tool and kind of click into it.
A key initiative right now is Downtown 2.0, where people live, work, and play in our city’s urban core. Khalil spoke on why the resident growth downtown is vital to the initiative, adding how other downtown residents impacted their cities during the pandemic.One is that walkability and that vitality can only come about if there are more residents to support the retail. And what we saw in the pandemic was, you know, hospitality and office kind of went away for a couple of years, and that made it hard for the resident population downtown there.
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