Our Community

 
 

Right at Home in San Antonio

Tobin Hill is home to some of San Antonio’s best metropolitan amenities. With its strong community association, easy access to most of San Antonio’s major attractions, and its commercial revitalization, Tobin Hill is restoring historic buildings and attracting new businesses, families, and individuals who want to enjoy urban living.

Tobin Hill’s Boundaries are directly north of Downtown San Antonio and part of midtown. Bordered on the north by Monte Vista and Trinity University; on the west by San Pedro Ave. and San Antonio College; the East by Hwy 281, the Historic Pearl Brewery and the San Antonio River’s Museum Reach; and the South by I-35 and the nationally recognized River North District.

 
 
 
 

Nearby Amenities

  • Five major colleges and universities, excellent public and private schools, including SAISD’s Fine Arts Choice school, Nathaniel Hawthorne Academy, and Travis Early College High School.

  • The Historic Pearl Brewery – bringing New Urbanism to life, including the largest solar panel installation in Texas, great entertainment and educational events, restaurants and green businesses including a year-round farmer’s market attracting thousands from across the city.

  • The Tobin Hill Historic District and the East French Historic District.

  • Walking distance to the San Antonio Zoo, the San Antonio Botanical Garden, the Witte Museum, Brackenridge Park, Crockett Park, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and home of the San Antonio Symphony and Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

  • The N. Main Ave. and N. St. Mary’s mixed-use corridors containing a wide variety of restaurants and entertainment venues, and hundreds of businesses providing a wide variety of community services and amenities.

  • A vibrant creative community of artists, architects, designers, writers, theater professionals and more.

 

The above amenities are in or within 15 minutes of Tobin Hill. Find out more about the Tobin Hill Community Association: read our Neighborhood Plan and Bylaws here.

 
 

Our Mission

 

Facilitate implementation of the Tobin Hill Neighborhood Plan.

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Protect the historic integrity of Tobin Hill’s residential core and other historic buildings in the neighborhood.

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Improve quality of life through the collaboration of those who live, work, and contribute to the social fabric of Tobin Hill.

 

Our Values

 

Transparent & Inclusive

The Tobin Hill Community Association (THCA) began with seven neighbors around a dining room table. Each of them held the belief that something great would begin in Tobin Hill if they could create a nonprofit community association that for the first time would be able to bring resources into our community, operate transparently and be inclusive of all Tobin Hill's stakeholders.

Members of the Tobin Hill Community Association worked together with the City of San Antonio, neighborhood business owners, residents, and other neighborhood stakeholders to create the Tobin Hill Neighborhood Plan.  This plan was adopted by the City of San Antonio in 2008. It includes goals, recommendations, and strategies for the preservation, restoration, and future development of our neighborhood, and serves as a guide for residential and commercial planning and zoning decisions, and infrastructure improvements in Tobin Hill.

THCA received its status as a Texas Corporation in September 2008, approved bylaws and elected its first Board of Directors in January 2009, and received its federal nonprofit status in May, 2009.

THCA's Bylaws can be viewed here.