{"id":326235,"date":"2026-07-01T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326235\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:01:55","slug":"downtown-st-pete-red-mesa-cantina-building-bought-by-atlanta-taco-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326235\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown St. Pete Red Mesa Cantina Building Bought By Atlanta Taco Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kucera chose to sell to Rreal Tacos because the group committed to preserving the building and converting it into a hospitality destination while highlighting its historic features, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis building has watched over downtown St. Pete for more than a hundred years. We didn&#8217;t buy it to change what it is \u2014 we bought it to honor it, fill it with life and hospitality for the next chapter of its life,&#8221; CEO Damian Otero said. <\/p>\n<p>The deal moved quickly after news spread that Red Mesa Cantina would be closing. <\/p>\n<p>Rreal Tacos said Otero flew to St. Petersburg the same day and met with the building&#8217;s owner within hours. <\/p>\n<p>The company also credited broker Harrison Gault with connecting the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucera chose to sell to Rreal Tacos because the group committed to preserving the building and converting it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-326235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}