The owner of a bar in Alamo Plaza could lose his property in a battle over the price he was offered by officials planning to build a museum.
Vince Cantu owns Moses Rose's Hideout, which the Alamo Trust wants to purchase as part of the $388 million Alamo Plaza redevelopment plan.The owner of a downtown bar that the state wants to acquire for the new Alamo museum said Thursday he is going to stand his ground.
“The good news is once we initiate those usually there’s a been a follow-up negotiation process with the owners, and before we get too far down the path, we usually negotiate an actual purchase price for the property,” Segovia said. Construction on the museum is scheduled to start in June and be completed in 2025 or 2026. It is expected the project will boost visits to San Antonio and the Alamo, one of the state’s top tourist attractions.Success! You're on the list.
“Mr. Vince Cantu has refused our offers and has not come to the table to negotiate in good faith,” Huhn said in an email. The trust is now urging the City of San Antonio to “explore the option to acquire the property” so the project can move forward. Cantu asserts there never was a negotiation effort on the part of the trust or then-Land Commissioner George Bush after the trust offered him $2.5 million and later $3.5 million after a second appraisal of the property.
“We need to show that it’s for a public purpose — we can’t just take properties that are convenient,” Segovia said. “The benefit to the community is having a world-class Alamo campus that has a visitor center, that has a museum, has all the historical resources that allow the community to learn about not only what happened in 1836, but the whole history of that area.”
It’s named after Louis “Moses” Rose, the purported “coward of the Alamo,” who fled the besieged fortress rather than fight, according to legend.
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