“I was there when we sold our first ticket in 2002, and I was there when we sold our last ticket in 2022,” said Davis Phillips, president and CEO of Phillips Entertainment. Between those years, 7 million tickets were sold, he said.
of the Alamo Trust in 2021 that discussions on an agreement to end the lease began to make headway.
Rogers called Phillips a good neighbor to the Alamo Trust, the nonprofit entity that manages the Alamo. “The museum will undoubtedly benefit the San Antonio community for many years to come with the creation of new jobs and incremental sales tax revenue, and we appreciate local business owners like Mr. Phillips who are helping to make that possible,” she said.
“We’re going to end up with this world-class Alamo museum and so the idea is that this will be a real win, I hope, for the state of Texas and the city of San Antonio when this is all said and done,” he said. “We need the Alamo plan to be done well.” He’s proud of their track record nevertheless. “Most businesses close because they aren’t doing well and that is certainly not the case,” Phillips said. “We ended on a high and I would have preferred to have been able to continue to operate, but the circumstances change.”
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