by Mary Lance
photography by Al Rendon
Living downtown is “like being on a permanent vacation,” says Sara Eyestone, a painter of national
renown, who lives with her husband David Molin in the Left Bank condominiums overlooking
the north channel of the San Antonio River across from Club Giraud. “I have clients who
live on multi-million dollar ranches who come to our place and say ‘Oh my god,’ if you ever
decide to sell, let us know.’”
Cheerleaders all were the three couples interviewed about what it’s like to live in downtown San
Antonio. And judging by the surge in current construction, coupled with so many new downtown apartments
and condo units being built, and even more on the drawing board, they’re not the only ones
attracted to the bright lights and big city of downtown San Antonio — a city which happens to be the No. 1 tourist destination for Texans who
vacation in their own state, and which is
now the seventh largest city (by rank and
population) in the United States.
So what is it about urban living that so
captivates those approximately 3,500 “downtowners” who have given up suburbia,
backyards and single-family housing for the
urban experience?
“The operative words about downtown
living are energy, vitality and diversity,” says
Mark Fowler, sales manager for McNair
Custom Homes, who with his wife Bonnie,
a school librarian, is absolutely mushy
about living in the heart of San Antonio in
an apartment in The Towers at the Majestic
building on East Houston. In New York, the
Fowlers say, their apartment would be
called a “railroad car” because it’s a long
and relatively narrow 100- by 14-foot space.
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