From Uel Trejo-Rivera: To be completely honest, I haven’t lived in Palm Heights for very long. I moved here last year, mostly to be closer to work. But a big part of the reason I moved was to be closer to what felt like home.
Uel Trejo-Rivera, right, and her husband, Mando Rivera, enjoy exploring their Palm Heights neighborhood.The Where I Live series aims to showcase our diverse city and region by spotlighting its many vibrant neighborhoods. Each week a local resident invites us over and lets us in on what makes their neighborhood special. Have we been to your neighborhood yet?Why? Because I am a born and raised San Antonian.
Palm Heights is full of “puro,” because of the locals. I see a man on a bike lugging a mini trailer from Raoul’s Liquor Store behind him with a full keg? Puro. I see a grandmother walking with her two grandchildren from Collins Garden Elementary School with traditional Mexican mercado bags? Puro. The neighbors are blasting tumbados and cumbias that my husband and I can get jiggy to while we work in the backyard? Puro.
As much as I love to live here, my family often comments to me on how disadvantaged this community has been. I have no reason to disagree with them. Back in the age of racial segregation, Palm Heights was actually a class “B” neighborhood, which meant still desirable, but it bordered areas that were less desirable. Even now, the 78225 zip code can be socioeconomically classified as lower middle class with the median household income in 2021 being just under $40,000.
The people who I see walking and biking are the same folks who bag up my groceries, who serve me my plate of chilaquiles, who fix my tire, or who open the door for me while I enter the library.
Palm Heights feels real because the locals are just built different. The locals are working-class families trying to put food on the table and still enjoy the small moments in life. When I think of my neighbors, local business owners, and workers that contribute to our local amenities? Nothing can get more puro than Palm Heights.
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