Plan filed for tower on Cain & Abel's site, but bar isn't closing soon, owner says
https://www.statesman.com/story/ente...t/65378765007/
You can take the metal chains and locks out of your Amazon cart. Cain & Abel’s is not going anywhere soon.
Some commenters on social media were beside themselves this week about the future of the West Campus fixture — including one on the Barstool Longhorns Instagram page who suggested patrons chain themselves to the bar. A site plan filed with the city Tuesday proposes the construction of a student housing tower on the site of the bar at 2313 Rio Grande St. The application was filed by 24RG Student Housing. Online circulation of the filing stirred up fans of Cain & Abel's, which has been a haunt for University of Texas students since 1991.
Those fears can be put on ice for now. Ellis Winstanley, who has owned Cain & Abel’s since 2002, tells the American-Statesman that his lease does not end for “several years,” though he declined to share the exact date. Winstanley said that, in his experience, site plans usually take at least two years to be approved.