January 15, 2007 | In: uncategorized
Main Plaza
In San Antonio, Texas the Main Plaza is located between the River walk to the east. To the west are the San Fernando Cathedral and the city council chambers. To the north is the Commerce Street and to the south is the Bexar county courthouse on Market Street. Main Plaza is the only serving Spanish colonial plaza in the country. Since early 18th century it has been a part of downtown San Antonio. A live community was created by the new world Spanish urban planners. They connected the city’s cathedra with the plaza which was called as Plaza de Ias Islas earlier. The plaza began to lose residential appealing and moved away from the downtown during the end of 1800s. The Market Street which was the road going through the center of the plaza was then widened for automobiles. The buildings nearby which are belonged to the 1960s were then reconstructed. A portion of this plaza is then made into a park in the 1960s because some people protested against this historically impacting change. No change in the place was happened till the year 2005. But in 2005 the former mayor Phil Hardberger proposed to renovate the main plaza by elevating the area.