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Article: San Antonio expands size of River Walk
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- June 11, 2009
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For decades, the channel of the San Antonio River north of the popular restaurants and retail shops downtown was overgrown and blighted _ the kind of place tourists went only if they made a wrong turn. But not anymore.
A $72 million overhaul _ essentially doubling the size of the River Walk _ has transformed the dry weed-choked eyesore north of the River Walk into a 1 1/2-mile (2.4-kilometer) manicured waterway with whimsical art, benches and fountains that can be passed on foot or by water taxi en route to attractions upriver.
The so-called museum reach of the River Walk, which opened May 30, connects visitors from the busy convention center and Alamo area to the San Antonio ...