Work on a San Antonio park will result in the city saying goodbye to an iconic structure.
In 1968, San Antonio was home to the World's Fair, called HemisFair, since it celebrated life and culture in the Western Hemisphere. Corporations, as well as nations, erected pavilions on ground near downtown San Antonio. Now, the arch that marks the entrance to the old fair site is coming down.
The arch was put up in 1988, so it is not historically part of the fair, but many San Antonio residents cherish it. It is only being removed so that workers will be able to restore some of the streets that were in existence before the site was leveled to build the fair.
The design firm for HemisFair Park is Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, which is based in Seattle. Its plan calls for all the edges of the park to serve as entrances, rather than having people enter at a single point. The most important gateway, though, is a smaller park located at the intersection of Market and Alamo streets, which is the location of the Convention Center and is still standing. This part of the old fairgrounds faces downtown, so most visitors to the new park will be likely to come from that direction.
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