KSAT News at Noon hit the road on Friday to the Carver Community Cultural Center in the heart of the Dignowity Hill neighborhood.

The Ella Austin Community Center is a hub for the East Side. But for about 18 months the center will be closed as it undergoes a major facelift.

A fire that started on the outside of New Testament Missionary Baptist Church caused heavy damage inside the building. Arson investigators are trying to determine how it started.

Dignowity Hill resident Vanessa Acosta said the City of San Antonio needs a long-term solution for animal overpopulation. District 2 Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is proposing a new plan.

Neighbors are leaning on an ACS pilot program pushing spay-neuter efforts to help with increasing numbers.

This East Side neighborhood is home to an ecosystem of social service organizations. With more than five of these groups catered to helping the homeless population, some neighbors worry the number of people without shelter in the neighborhood will only climb.

Dignowity Hill is committed to its history but open to its evolution, according to neighbors. A unique example of that is the importance and reverence people share for The Carver, a performing arts center that was once the only library for Black San Antonians during segregation. Just blocks away, a company focused on innovation in the life sciences has become part of the neighborhood. And the latter has plans to grow even bigger roots in Dignowity Hill.

As part of the SAFFE unit — an acronym for San Antonio Fear Free Environment — Officer Carlos Gutierrez is tasked with trying to prevent crime before it happens.

People in the historic neighborhood, just east of downtown, say they feel neglected when it comes to new businesses opening in the city. They'd like more stores that sell healthy food.

Young professionals, developers and house flippers spurred an urban revival in old Dignowity Hill, and that's lead to soaring property values, higher tax bills and gentrification.

The view of downtown from many of the homes in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood is second to none, but they also have a front-row seat to some of the city’s biggest issues: homelessness, gentrification and rising property taxes.

An African American community at its heart, vestiges of its affluent past remain in Dignowity Hill. But over recent decades of demolition and rebuilding, one historian worries that the integrity of the neighborhood was also lost in the process.

This edition of Know My Neighborhood explores the push and pull of preservation versus progress, the heart of a neighborhood in transition and the struggle for the community to define itself.

More than a half-million Bexar County homeowners may be in for more sticker shock. The Bexar County Appraisal District mailed notices and posted them online, showing an average increase of nearly 15%.

Investigators are trying to determine if there is a connection between a fire in a backyard shed in Dignowity Hills and a woman who was found nearby with burns.

A man and woman who died in an alleged murder-suicide have been identified as Carlos Bautista and Yolanda Gisela Lopez, both 43.