Taco Land as an ice-house with Billy Bob Thornton strumming madly in the corner? That was the essence of a recent Facebook post at Keep San Antonio Lame backed by “several reliable sources.” The “semi-official if not fully confirmed” scoop suggested that developer David M. Adelman and actor Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives) own the old Taco Land property (true), and that it was “entirely possible but not confirmed” that the venue would reopen in December 2011 or January 2012 as “The Grayson St. Ice House” with Billy Bob Thornton’s band booked as the inaugural act. The lead was specific enough to prompt Sound & Fury to track down David Reyes, Chavira’s publicist, who said that while Chavira is a member of the company that owns the property (Taco Land Studios, LLC), all that ice-house business isn’t true.
“The property has not been leased out to anybody, and there are no plans to open the so-called Grayson St. Ice House,” Reyes said Monday during a phone interview. “I don’t know where that came from.” But is it possible there had been talks about this, and that’s where the rumors started? “No, I’ve never heard anything, and Ricardo hasn’t either,” he said. “It’s just a very interesting property and people like to talk. But everything’s in the air right now.”