By Edmond Ortiz One year since starting a $200 million expansion of Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan, Methodist Healthcare is celebrating a major milestone in a project that adds three operating rooms and a nearly 1,000-space parking garage to the Tobin Hill facility. What you should know Hospital leaders, longtime physicians, local artists and community partners…
By Edmond Ortiz This edition of Transit Tracker highlights the launch of the Loop 410/U.S. 281 improvements, a freeway ramp closure on Interstate 10, the delayed start to upgrades on Lookout Road in Live Oak, and the opening of a new low-water crossing bridge around the Bexar/Comal county line. Also, San Antonio residents are invited…
By Edmond Ortiz This edition of News Briefs features the introduction of a trained counseling dog helping students at an Alamo Heights school, and the approval of key leaders for an upcoming San Antonio International Airport project. Also, local residents recently applied their creative skills toward a mural project at a Tobin Hill neighborhood hospital….
By Edmond Ortiz While Bexar County plans to rebuild a Windcrest-area street, a number of notable road, drainage and sidewalk projects are advancing around the San Antonio-area, including initiatives in Midtown and west San Antonio, Castle Hills, Cibolo, Converse and Shavano Park. Elsewhere, New Braunfels residents are asked to voice their thoughts on which city…
Below is a list of select events taking place in the San Antonio area. Have a local event you would like Focus On San Antonio to promote? Email all the details to eortiz@journalist.com. STAGE Weekly Woodlawn Comedy at Woodlawn Theatre presents Friday Night Lights. Each Friday night features standup comics or improv comedy activities. Ages…
By Edmond Ortiz Voters taking part in June 13 runoff elections tapped a business owner for an Alamo Colleges District board post, and ousted New Braunfels incumbent mayor and one council member. Alamo Colleges District Accountant Robert Garcia won a runoff election for ACD District 9 post, receiving 57% of the vote against Carolyn DeLecour,…
By Edmond Ortiz Officials with Methodist Healthcare ended the month of April with two milestone events meant to expand healthcare access for Medina Valley-area residents, and advance midwifery. Medina Valley emergency room Leaders from Methodist Healthcare gathered April 30 to celebrate the groundbreaking of Methodist ER | Medina Valley, a free-standing emergency room designed to…
By Edmond Ortiz Methodist Healthcare will have two local artists to paint large-scale murals on the exterior of a near-downtown hospital that is undergoing renovations and improvements. What is happening Officials with Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan chose artists Sandra Gonzalez and Malachy McKinney to create murals that will adorn a new, 969-space parking garage, which…
By Edmond Ortiz A handful of City Council members joined local LGBTQ community members March 29 to celebrate the installation of rainbow sidewalks along a key Tobin Hill neighborhood street. The Pride-themed sidewalks replace rainbow crosswalks that the city was forced to remove to comply with an order from the governor. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked…
By Edmond Ortiz The launches of a Midtown bookstore, healthcare clinics in Stone Oak, Live Oak and the South Side, boutiques in Garden Ridge and Leon Valley, and nonprofits in Boerne and New Braunfels are among the newest businesses and organizations to open in the San Antonio area. This new edition of Business Briefs also…
