Alamo redevelopment plan includes shutting down traffic, creating museum, visitor center
By Myra Arthur - Anchor/Reporter
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Posted: 6:55 PM, November 30, 2016
Updated: 7:07 PM, November 30, 2016
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In the works for seven months now, the plan also includes shutting down traffic on Alamo Street from Houston Street to Market Street and on Crockett Street from the Menger Hotel to Losoya Street.
The project would create a more structured entrance for Alamo visitors.
"We need to create some logic and order," said George Skarmeas with PDP. "People get in and out from all different directions. They have no sense of place. They come in from the north, the west (and) the south."
Moving the Cenotaph several blocks south of the Alamo is also part of the plan.
The Cenotaph marks the site where the remains of defenders of the Alamo were burned.
The project also aims to restore and preserve the nearly 300-year-old building.
"Simply put, the building is deteriorating before our very eyes," Skarmeas said.
One modern-day accommodation challenging the Alamo's structure: air conditioning.
Skarmeas said it’s forcing moisture through the building in a pattern that would not naturally occur.
It's just one of the challenges facing the preservation of the building.
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