Thursday, April 19, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 3
^ity gets face lift, A&M style
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LESSON
ByKARI FLUEGEL
Reporter
fattleman Square in San An-
pis undergoing a face lift by
]eTexas A&M students,
he renovation of the 20-
[k area west of downtown
Antonio has been the pet
ject of the Department of
an and Regional Planning
exas A&M for the past year,
project is co-sponsored by
[llie San Antonio Development
fncy.
fattleman Square is the gate-
to the downtown area and
considered part of down-
until Interstate 35 cut he
rn it and the main core of
downtown area. It now is
of the Vista Verde Urban
lewal Project.
Indents in Planning 489A
Landscape 421 have stud-
phe existing structures, ana-
i the growth and prepared
hg-range plan for rejuvenat-
the area. Students have
working with property
lers and city leaders for
ore than a year.
jtary Vasquez, a senior from
iai] Antonio, initiated the pro-
The idea began when
Charles Toudouze, owner of
A.C. Toudouze Co., asked Vas
quez to renovate his building in
the Cattleman Square area.
Vasquez realized his ideas
wouldn’t work unless the entire
area was included, he said.
The idea then was adopted
by the planning department.
Since then, four departments
and 31 undergraduate students
have participated.
Ed Tokarek, a senior who has
been working with Vasquez on
the plan since last year, said
many of the people involved
with the project seem impressed
with the quality of the work, es
pecially when they discover it
was done by undergraduates.
Undergraduate students do
not usually work on projects
with this large a scope, Vasquez
said.
Funding for the work com
pleted last semester came from
a grant from San Antonio, but
this semester the funding is
coming mostly from Cattleman
Square land owners.
The plan includes the reno
vation of old buildings with his
torical value and the building of
new structures, such as hotels,
for both commercial and resi
dential uses.
The principle structure in
the area is the old Missouri Pa
cific (MOPAC) Train Station.
The cost of the proposed reno
vations for the station itself are
estimated at $6-$7 million.
“It is real hard to put a price
tag on it because the outside is
good but the inside has to be all
torn up,” Tokarek said.
The MOPAC station, which
is no longer in use, is directly
connected to St. Paul’s Station
on the other side of San Anto
nio and is on a line running
from Canada to Mexico City.
Renovations for the station
include such items as trimming
shrubbery and general clean-up
of the building. Renovating the
station opens the possibility of
putting it back into operation.
A World Trade Center also is
proposed for the area and
would be a declared foreign
trade zone.
“It would be one of the key
generators of activity in the
area,” Jesus Hinojosa, planning
professor and director of the
study, said. “The center would
promote international trade for
the city.”
Vasquez compares the Trade
Center to a shopping center for
international trade and tou
rism.
“It’s potentially something
very big for San Antonio,” Vas
quez said.
Class members made a pre
liminary presentation to Tou
douze Tuesday. The students
have a chance to answer some
of the questions they might be
asked at the final presentation
April 30.
“The input, work and enthu
siasm of the students was excel
lent,” Toudouze said.
However, Toudouze added
that some of the ideas would
probably never be used because
of elements, such as land owner
preferences, of which the stu
dents were not aware.
One issue that was brought
up during the meeting was the
availability of parking. Hinojosa
said the class would examine all
ossible options for the prob-
em.
P
le
St. Joseph’s ice cream
to help liberty statue
By ABA FAY WOOD
Reporter
Ice cream lovers can
quench that hunger for a
cone, and help renovate an
American landmark at the
same time.
Starting May 5, St. Joseph
Hospital will be having a dou
ble-dip ice cream sale, with
the proceeds going to help
with the renovation of the
Statue of Liberty.
Kay Thompson, who is
food service director at the
hospital and chairman of the
event, says that it will last
through May 12, and that
they hope to raise $6,000.
“I just want people to
come,” Thompson said.
The first day the sale will
start in front of the hospital at
10 a.m. and last until 4 p.m.
Just driving through will get
an ice cream fiend a scoop of
chocolate and vanilla in a
cone for only $1.
The mayors of Bryan and
College Station will be pre
sent to help kick off the
event, along with the Coca-
Cola Robot, Thompson said.
For the remainder of the
week the ice cream will be
served in the hospital cafete
ria from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Anyone can come in and get
some, Thompson said.
She became involved in the
nationwide campaign re
cently when the ARA, a na
tionwide campaign group,
approached her with the ren
ovation information.
Thompson said she de
cided that she would take the
ball and run with it. Since
May 7 through 12 is Hospital
Week, she thought this fund
raiser for the Statue of Lib
erty was the perfect public
service event.
Thompson noticed that a
local grade school had raised
$ 1,600 from a can drive, and
knew that the hospital could
help in the renovation , too.
The renovators need $230
million to make the deterio
rating statue safe and beauti
ful again. This money will
have to come from the people
since no government money
will be used, Thompson said.
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done in 1979.
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Classol Wing, is used primarily to
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iteorology analysis and fore-
riEoi
Weather Service or the Federal
Aviation Administration.”
Brenton, who received his
meteorology training in the Air
Force, said the station stresses
hands-on experience using the
theories learned in class.
Weather is forecast throughout
the day by studying in great de
tail the distribution of moisture,
temperature, pressure and
of the potential for severe
weather.
Brenton said climatology, a
statement of past weather his
tory, is also used as a guide to
make the forecast.
“One analogy I always make
with young kids touring the sta
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We’re concerned purely
th academics just the same as
j other department,” station
nager Charles Brenton said,
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O ! public, the National
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phasize with everybody is that
the atmosphere is in continual
motion, thus it is constantly
changing,” Brenton said.
To help forecast the weather,
the department receives 126 re
ady-made maps of the atmo
sphere from the National
Weather Service. Radar data
and satellite pictures are used to
look at the atmosphere in terms
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