Highland Park Neighborhood Association

Highland Park Neighborhood Association

How Highland Park got started

At the turn of the previous century, some residents of the King William area (who owned the land) and some friends who contructed houses, got together and decided to build one mansion per block to offer residents a place "away from the noise and dust of the city" between San Antonio and the warm sulphur springs located southeast of the city's boundaries in the 1800s.The result was more than one house per block, and two of the city's first streetcar lines, running along what are now Avenues Rigsby and South New Braunfels.

Why Highland Park Neighborhood Association was created

Over the years, the Highland Park area was surrounded by an ever-growing city. The hot sulphur springs to the west of the neighborhood became nationally famous when President Theodore Roosevelt and other dignitaries visited, but the springs flowed through an abandoned building by the latter 20th century.
The neighborhood suffered from urban blight, as many inner city neighborhoods do.
In 1985, neighborhood residents formed the Highland Park Neighborhood Association to combat urban blight and demand improvements to infrastructure.

What Highland Park Neighborhood Association is doing today

During its history, the Highland Park Neighborhood Association has drastically impacted its area through acquisition of grants to add sidewalks, trees and the largest community xeriscape in San Antonio and Bexar County. HPNA was one of the first associations in Bexar County to organize semi-annual neighborhood cleanups. Through the efforts of the neighborhood association, Highland Park is slated to become the site of the first community demonstration rainwater catchment system in Bexar County. We continue to work together to educate all area residents and improve and maintain the quality of life both now and in the future. In April of 2002, we along with neighboring groups, celebrated the completion of the Highlands Community Plan--a plan that outlines our desire to develop a liveable and sustainable community for all residents.
We are doing things to make Highland Park a safe and pleasant place to live for all residents. If you share this vision, come join us!
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About our association

Highland Park Neighborhood Association contact information

Highland Park Neighborhood Association
PO Box 10210
San Antonio TX 78210-0210

2006 Officers

Upon reaching her term limit as President at the end of 2004, Rachel Cywinski presented the membership with what she viewed as the greatest challenge of her presidency--that is to achieve a full and completely diversified slate of officers, directors and advisors. With that in mind, she had visited every pastor of the 23 congregations in Highland Park boundaries and within the adjacent one mile area, visited each of the approximately 130 business owners in the Highland Park boundaries, and each of the principals of schools in the area as well.
The membership adopted the list, which included representatives of all ages and several ethnic and racial heritages; native English and native Spanish speakers; as well as single,married, divorced and widowed homeowners; including a youth representative who had grown up attending events at the James Bode Community Center, a deacon of a local Missionary Baptist congregation, representatives of local business and education, as well as a treasurer and committee chairperson from our contingent of faithful long-time members and former HPNA presidents.
Highland Park Neighborhood Association was ready to move forward with the intention that every officer, director and advisor, all of whom represented different aspects of the community, would commit to one's own devotion to the goal of a safe community and the Highland Park Neighborhood Association, and to draw upon the special and unique community members represented by each of these officers and representatives.
This was hoped to be the opportunity for revitalizing the Highland Park Neighborhood Association (HPNA).
When it was founded more than 20 years ago, HPNA had a founding group of members who remained active during their retirement years. We have been very fortunately to have many retired persons, most of whom were single or widowed, who have devoted untold hours to the community through various HPNA events, most recently including development and maintenance of the Highland Park Xeriscape Garden from 2001 to 2004, when the memorandum of understanding reverted responsibility to City of San Antonio Recreation Department.

MEETINGS

The Highland Park Neighborhood Association usually meets the Second Tuesday of every month, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at the James Bode Community Center located in Highland Park at 900 Rigsby Avenue in San Antonio.
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