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Article: San Antonio capitalizes on popular river.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2005
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Jun. 14--SAN ANTONIO -- If the San Antonio Spurs are teaching the Detroit Pistons a painful lesson about basketball, the Spurs' hometown can teach Detroit something a lot more pleasant about urban design.
Detroit undertakes major construction this year on its long-awaited River Walk along its eastern riverfront. But San Antonio's own River Walk has been celebrated for decades as among the first urban waterfront attractions in the nation.
San Antonio's River Walk was built as a New Deal-era project in 1941 and then upgraded in the 1960s when local restaurants, bars and clubs were persuaded to open along the banks of the below-street-level waterway. Thus ...