As of Thursday, you'll get to use the $100,000 public bathroom you paid for.

The city bought the expensive public toilet in March to help address the lack of restroom facilities in the most-visited part of San Antonio. Since the purchase, the city has been scouting a location, seen as key to making the purchase worthwhile, according to downtown City Councilman Robert Trevino.

The single-toilet unit, officially called the “Portland Loo” and made by a company in Oregon, is unisex and open 24 hours a day. It will be unveiled Thursday at the intersection of Commerce and Losoya, about two blocks from the Alamo and right next to the Riverwalk.

“It's currently installed in one of the busiest and most trafficed spots in San Antonio,” Councilman Trevino said. “35 million people [are] estimated to go through this area.”

The price tag of this restroom has received a lot of attention. The unit alone is about $100,000, plus another $80,000 for installation. Trevino said it’s a bargain compared to the $250,000 a year spent to clean up a small portion of downtown streets due to a lack of toilets.

“How much do we spend a year in cleaning up our streets from excrement, feces, and so forth,” asked Trevino.

It has ventilation slits on the top and bottom meant to discourage folks from misbehaving inside. That's what happened at one location in downtown San Diego. It became a homeless hang out and a place for drug use and other crime to happen.

Trevino said that the San Antonio Police Department is aware of the problems the Portland Loo had in San Diego and will be monitoring it. A counter on the door will also track of how many people use it, and that will be monitored to determine if the city will purchase more Portland Loos.