Housing
A ‘Latino High Line’ Promises Change for San Antonio
The San Pedro Creek Culture Park stands to be a transformative project for nearby neighborhoods. To fight displacement, the city is creating a risk mitigation fund.
When Maureen Galindo moved into her two-bedroom apartment in San Antonio in 2017, she was a single mother who couldn’t point to a stable income stream. No problem, her landlord said. That’s the kind of place the Soapworks and Towne Center Apartments was.
Since then, she fell in love with the tight-knit community that lives there along San Pedro Creek, blocks from the famous Mexican marketplace at Historic Market Square, where artisans have peddled their textiles, ceramics, and crafts for generations. San Pedro Creek is the wellspring of San Antonio’s largely Latino middle class. Immigrants and native-born Texans of all races and ethnicities call this area home. “It intersects all demographics, besides being rich,” Galindo says.