The Avenida Guadalupe Association is a neighborhood-based organization incorporated in 1979 and is engaged in not-for-profit neighborhood revitalization and economic development projects in the near Westside. Less than two miles from downtown, Avenida has developed as far west as Zarzamora Street and plans to develop existing and new affordable housing further east of Smith Street. During more than 30 years of service, the Avenida Guadalupe Association invested in economic and housing development, stimulating commerce while preserving the physical and spiritual character of the Avenida Guadalupe neighborhood.
An 18,000 square foot medical facility was planned for the projects far-west corner along San Jacinto Street at Guadalupe resulting in what is now Davila Pharmacy, the foremost commercial anchor of the Avenida Guadalupe commercial corridor. Adjacent Davila Pharmacy is the Margarita Huantes Learning and Leadership Center having the site for its construction appropriated to the City of San Antonio by the Avenida Guadalupe Association. In 1984, at the ground breaking ceremony for Plaza Guadalupe, then Mayor Henry Cisneros, who spoke in English and Spanish, said Plaza Guadalupe would draw on all aspects of the community: religious, historical, economic and cultural. Having painted a portrait of the Progreso Drugstore in 1977, renowned Chicano artist Jesse Trevino reflected that the “Avenida Guadalupe development group thought that this particular painting of mine relates to the area more than any other… The drugstore represents a very vital part of that particular Westside community… And I believe strongly about the cause that it benefits”, referencing the Avenida’s plan to print posters of Trevino’s “Progreso Drugstore” painting as a first capital campaign strategy for the construction of a plaza in the Avenida Guadalupe target area.
February 22, 1979, City of San Antonio, Texas designates Avenida Guadalupe as a Neighborhood Business Revitalization Target Area. Motion was made by San Antonio City Councilwoman Mrs. Hellen Dutmer and seconded my Councilman Joe Webb. Motion carried unanimously. December 6, 1979, Edmundo E. Rodriguez (1321 El Paso Street), Eugenio Macias (1982 Donaldson), and Daniel Saucedo (1214 Colima Street) incorporated Avenida Guadalupe Association under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act, perpetually, to operate exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, common good and general welfare of the residents and merchants in the Avenida Guadalupe Project Area, then a severely neglected Mexican-American community. Bed Bug Exterminator San Antonio
Restaurants and Pubs
- Wendy’s is located at 514 W Cevallos, San Antonio, TX
- P’s is located at 1601 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, TX
- Texas T Pub is located at 121 Broadway, San Antonio, TX
- Maddy McMurphy’s Irish Sports Bar is located at 420 E Houston St, San Antonio, TX
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