County sees redevelopment of Continental Hotel as ‘next step’ in Zona Cultural revitalization
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Cattlemen once preferred the hotel on West Commerce for its proximity to the stockyards and Military Plaza; in those days, it was known as La Clede Hotel.
Around 1926, the vacant three-story structure spanning the length of four lots became the Continental Hotel, the name by which it was known until it closed in the late 1970s, later serving as home to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
This year, the old hotel, an adjacent parking lot, and the 1928 Arana Building on the same block could get a new lease on life as the first housing project approved under the newly formed Bexar County Public Facility Corporation, or PFC