So I looked at the “master plan” video linked at the bottom of the site. The promenade creates a long perspective focused entirely on the Alamo and restores the south entrance used for hundreds of years. It excavates the original cells and rooms and makes them visible on a walking tour. It’s moves all trinkety and tourist trappy shops further away from the Alamo leaving the space free for history and remembrance. It places the cenotaph for the dead at the actual site of the battle.
All of this seems good to me.
The clear walls are an aesthetic choice that some will not like but I think it’s nice that the view of the Alamo and its central vanishing point wont be obscured by an opaque wall.
Gee n00b, it doesn’t look as though you read the whole prospect, are all for the multi-culti aspect of this crap, and do NOT belong on this site.
I watched the video, and “indigenous peoples”, “Spanish fathers”, was mentioned as much or more than the defenders in the battle. It is obvious that the Battle of the Alamo, which is what the shrine is intended to remember, is intended to be submerged, and buried, in a sea of multiculturalism. To prepare, as Pat Buchanan once wrote, Santa Ana’s image will probably be place on the nickel.
I once visited the Alamo and was dismayed to see that the site was embedded in the middle of a business district, so I am excited to see that all that clutter is being moved back. Other than for that, the shrine is awesome.
Turning into a multicultural Disneyland that focuses on 300 years of San Antonio. Like the Riverwalk Mall, the Alamo just happens to be there as part of the experience.
http://www.alamoplazaproject.com/AlamoPlaza_Overview.pdf?ExecutivePlan=
http://www.alamoplazaproject.com/AlamoPlazaRestorationProject.pdf
Critics of the project would do well to read the links above and note that quite a bit of it is in contrast to the author of the link. In reality the Alamo does have more history than just the battle as noted in the pdf link. Restoring to as close as possible to the original is a noble idea. The legislature took Alamo custody from DRT not Bush. Cenotaph moved to south end not blocks away. The south wall is original type materials. I didn’t see fiberglas claims on north wall but I might have missed it. Visit Bracketville for another perspective.
My concerns revolve around protecting the new “plaza” from protestors of all stripes and keeping the LaRaza Castro brothers from having any say about the project.
Unless more detailed and “accurate” negative evidence is presented, I believe this is a worthy project. And I say this as a sixth generation Texan and 60+ year south Texan that flies my “Come and Take It” and Texas flags on my flagpole frequently. It would be dangerous for “wet” lovers and antifas to try to take it down!
Moosake! A simple opening or window would suffice for that purpose.
Besides, who the #3!! are you to suggest trashing Texas history?
(I'm a Texas Archaeological Steward; every day of my life, I work to preserve Texas heritage...)