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San Antonio stands at a crossroads. The coronavirus pandemic has devastated our economy and caused enormous social and economic pain for our citizens. That pain has been greatest for those who work in the visitor and hospitality sectors. The convention business has collapsed, travel has shrunk, and restaurants have shuttered. It will be years before those jobs return, if ever. That economic devastation has been most pronounced in the part of our city most reliant on visitors and hotel stays the downtown core. Over a period of some five decades, we or rather, our political and business leadership succeeded in building a downtown that functions almost solely for visitors. In 2011, HR&A Advisors, commissioned to produce a Center City Strategic Framework Plan, concluded that “downtown has experienced an imbalance of uses: hotels and visitor-centric retail are now the dominant businesses, not only in the immediate core of downtown, but also along many of the area’s majo