Half of the Ellis Alley Enclave, one of San Antonio’s earliest settlements of African-American freedmen and the East Side’s historical starting point, is moldering in the shadow of the Vidorra condominium tower. Gray paint is peeling off of three of its six structures, the wooden beams on one front porch have rotted and collapsed, and each building is surrounded by a tall chain-link fence.
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