HEB entered into a deal with the city to buy two city blocks the details of which I have no personal knowledge of. They bought out all the homes, demolished them and built the location of HEB #2, there were two notable holdouts but HEB did not care they built around them.
One was a home/workshop and the other a former car dealership. The home/workshop was sold by the family after the passing of its owner. Now the last holdout of what was once Arledge Motor Company sold its property to HEB.
Would love to know the purchase price but in Texas that information is confidential. I do not know how many parking spaces that will add but a piece of Del Rio history was lost. Wish I had known so I could have photographed the old building for posterity sake.
It seems like all the landmarks of my youth are disappearing. Arrañaga's Grocery is now a Medical Clinic the sad part is that even the personnel that work there had no idea it had once been a grocery store until I enlightened them.
Gas prices at HEB on Friday $2.549 for regular gasoline. Saturday they dropped one penny to $2.549.
Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.
