Officials' efforts to communicate about construction on César Chávez has run up against some businesses' lingering mistrust toward the City of San Antonio.
Get the latest in the San Antonio Report’s business and development reporting delivered straight to your inbox with our free daily newsletter.The videos — or reels, in Instagram parlance — feature small businesses along North St. Mary’s Street, with close-ups of their food and drink offerings mixed with interior shots of each location., who waxes poetic about each bite he takes. Video shots of North St. Mary’s Street show nary an orange cone in site.
Today, everything is open, and traffic is returning. “The fact that we can just drive to Strip, park on the street, go get lunch and leave in 45 minutes is awesome,” she said. Pedestrians and motorists travel freely along the St. Mary’s Strip now that more than two years of construction is complete.On Sept. 21, her office — along with hundreds of others in and around the impacted area — received an email from the city’s Public Works Department alerting them that two intersections along César Chávez Boulevard would be closed for construction, at Santa Rosa and at South Alamo streets.
The restaurant and bar business is a precarious one, operating on thin margins in the best of times. San Antonio’s restaurants and bars are just now staggering out of the second hottest summer on record,Rod Sanchez, the assistant city manager who oversees Public Works, acknowledged the duress many establishments remain under.
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