Behind an eye-catching contemporary art installation doubling as a barrier to road construction is a historic neighborhood with a trendy new resident.
The Alex Hilmy-designed row of bronze-colored, reflective spheres along the sidewalk of South Alamo Street sits in front of where the revolving doors of the new Kimpton Santo Hotel opened in La Villita on Aug. 29.
The stylish, nine-story luxury hotel at 423 S. Alamo St. is situated on a 1-acre parcel in the former surface parking lot of the 251-room Marriott Plaza San Antonio Hotel and across the street from Hemisfair.
The 360-room hotel is also attached to a Texas Historic Landmark, the German-English School built in 1858, and it envelops a peaceful courtyard where…