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Blue Skies Smile Again over San Antonio Neighborhood.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2002
By Adolfo Pesquera, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 2--Sky Harbor, a South Side neighborhood where the homeowners' renowned grit was often eclipsed in the media by the crime they fought, was never actually completed.
Ray Ellison, the original developer that was later absorbed by KB Home, left the back end of the subdivision vacant in the early 1980s. And for 20 years, several neighborhood streets extended on city maps beyond where any real pavement existed.
That all changed toward the end of 2001, when McAllen-based developer Obra Homes invested in the project.
Obra's development is the second recent major housing project on the South Side. Last February, American CityVista's Lago Vista...
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