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Our most viewed articles in 2024 consisted of the review of a chic new sushi restaurant, a mid-century modern house recently renovated in Alamo Heights, two San Antonio-based visual artists, and a contemporary dance choreographer you need to know about. Learn more below!

Carrot & Honey Interior Design, LLC provides interior design services and custom fabrication solutions for commercial and residential spaces in San Antonio, Texas. They are owned and operated by Kai Thompson, RID, IIDA, and Jonathan Davis.

Cecilia Garcia-Hours, PLA is a licensed Professional Landscape Architect and Studio Leader at MP Studio in San Antonio. She has dual bachelor's degrees from Texas A&M University, one in Landscape Architecture and the other is a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies focused on Latin America. For her graduate degree, she received a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

[Sponsored]  Rockport, Texas was once known as a small Texas coastal fishing town. Today, it is a thriving and rapidly growing community, which still includes fishing, but also has a strong presence in tourism and the arts.

Our most viewed articles in 2023 include an interview with a Casting Director who grew up in S.A. and is now based in L.A., the new Executive Director of the San Antonio Philharmonic, a local mid-century modern antiques dealer, a contributing article from an architecture firm that designed a building which hosts the education of first-responders, and the background behind a new development in River North with fantastic new restaurants + brewery!  Did you miss them? Let us bring you up to speed below.

Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is an internationally recognized leader that provides the highest training exercises to emergency response professionals. They have a long and impactful history of training first responders with a legacy that is only matched by their significant growth over the last few years. They have five educational facilities in Texas with their headquarters located in College Station. Their center of operation is also home to their impressive Disaster City™ and Fire Training Field™.

An exciting new adaptive reuse development is cropping up in the River North neighborhood, a block away from the Museum Reach portion of the River Walk. Directly adjacent to the Soto Building off of Broadway between 8th and Brooklyn Avenue, the new Make Ready Market will be a unique multi-vendor food and drink destination.

Kristin Wiese Hefty, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is an architect based in San Antonio, Texas, and is a Partner and Project Architect at the firm DADO group.

What were people clicking on at MiSA? Keep scrolling to see our most viewed articles of 2022.

The St. Mary’s campus was founded in 1852 and is the oldest Catholic university in the Southwest. Their 135-acre site is located on the West Side of San Antonio, offers multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees, numerous special academic programs, and is home to more than 3,200 students. The private university has mentored, inspired, and served countless individuals over the decades since the opening of its doors. Their heritage is rooted in Marianist principles and those beliefs extend into their education and services.