Alamo redevelopment gets $400M boost from Texas Legislature

When Kate Rogers was hired in 2021 to lead the Alamo Trust, she encountered a “healthy level of skepticism” about whether redevelopment of the Alamo complex would actually come to fruition.

During the previous year, the project encountered controversy over moving the Alamo Cenotaph from its location, multiple deep-pocketed donors to the project had dropped out, and San Antonio residents remained uncertain how the evolving site plans would actually look in the end.

But the project got its biggest boost to date on Sunday, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the state’s $321.3 billion budget, which includes a $400 million allocation for the historic Alamo redevelopment.

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