Mission Concepción has colorful frescos inside that date to the 1750s.
Welcome to San Antonio Missions, a National Park Service site and the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Texas. After thousands of years, South Texans faced drought, European diseases, and colonization. In the 1700s, these Indigenous South Texans foreswore their traditional subsistence lifestyle and assimilated for survival to the Spanish ways, accepting a new religion, diet, economy and more.
The National Park Service (NPS) headquarters for San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a commercially leased facility that is nearing expiration. As part of the process to acquire a new space the Federal government is required to acquire space through full and open completion among suitable locations meeting minimum Government requirement, in accordance with 41 CFR 102-73.100. Except when specifically delegated to individual Federal agencies, the acquisition of leased space is performed by the General Service Administration (GSA). To ensure the NPS’s ability to acquire new space, GSA has contracted with a commercial real estate broker to assist with this acquisition. As part of this process, the Broker has performed initial outreach to vendors who have actively listed facilities that appear to meet our requirements and GSA has released a pre-solicitation notice (Notice ID: 1TX2620_1) to determine potential market interest.
A new National Park Service report shows that 1.2 million park visitors to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in 2023 spent $95.0 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,480 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $150 million.
San Antonio Missions has received a grant from the National Park Foundation to continue preservation work in the park through the Cultural Landscape Apprentice Program.
In celebration of National Park Week and Earth Day, National Park Service Director Chuck Sams visited San Antonio Missions National Historical Park today where he announced a new national designation for Mission San José, welcomed new American citizens at a naturalization ceremony, issued free park passes to Gold Star families and members of the military, and visited a Great American Outdoors Act historic preservation and infrastructure investment in the park.