On the margins of downtown San Antonio, a maligned neighborhood mobilizes to save itself

Attendees watch as a Día de los Muertos procession continues through the Alazán-Apache Courts in San Antonio on Nov. 1, 2022. (Credit: Azul Sordo/The Texas Tribune)

SAN ANTONIO — High up on the Guadalupe Street bridge, the contours of downtown disappear behind you.

The humpback overpass spans railroad tracks and the thin ribbon of Alazán Creek before dropping back down into the city’s historic West Side, a mostly Latino, mostly low-income neighborhood born of segregation and redlining.