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Originally Posted by westernmost
I'd always thought the height atop the pyramid parts of the spire where everyone looks to, expecially when lit at night, was around the 500 or 510 mark, does anyone have the blueprints or any records of what parts are at which heights on the rivercenter, this is one subject that's always needed a further look into it
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I would like to know some more details about the spires and heights up there also, but 546 feet to the spires and 441 to the roof seems about right. As for finding the blueprints, well, I doubt the general public could see them anymore. Your best bet is to contact the architect, RTKL Associates, Inc, and ask them. They would have the original blueprints on file somewhere in storage. I've not had a whole lot of luck getting building heights in San Antonio, though. And not living there makes it hard to be able visit every building and talk to their building managers to get them. Also, never trust what anyone at the front desk says, they don't know, they don't have that info available at the desk and would likely not take the time to bother with finding it for you. Believe me, I've tried, even here in Austin people at front desks are useless. They might as well be broken robots.
As for the "real people" comment and where they go, (downtown vs elsewhere), I know what jtk1519 was talking about. He was distinguishing between out of towners (tourists) and actual residents of San Antonio and where they go. I sort of agree that certain areas of downtown can be slow, even during the week save for the tourists. That's not to say that San Antonioians don't go downtown, of course they do, just that it isn't "the place" they go in large numbers. And as for a large percentage of the city's population going downtown, why not? With a typical major city having 80,000 to 100,000+ people working in downtown, they're already there for work, why not have them live there also and squish traffic problems. Then you have all the other people who do go down there for entertainment type stuff. Why not have them live there also? They obviously like being there otherwise they wouldn't be going. The lack of people in downtown Houston or a centralized entertainment hub has led to some identity issues with Houston since everyone is spread out. This is also bad since it inevitable ends up separating everyone. Whites over there, blacks over here and Mexicans over there. Not good. Why do you think Austin's 6th Street and Warehouse Districts are so revered? It's because they're THE place to be. Of course there are others, but those two are the real people magnets anywhere in the city.
It's always sort of interested me in what residents of very popular touristy cities do on their free time. What do they do for fun? Where do they go to hang out in their city? This is something I always wondered about on trips down to the coast to Corpus Christi and Port Aransas. We'd be there for vacation, fishing, swimming in the ocean, walking the beach and just hanging out there. I'd see homes in those towns and always wondered what those people did for fun.