The Stand closes; being moved to Dienger

After more than two decades of serving up sweet, satisfying snow cones, The Stand has halted sales from its Main Street-River Road location.

But the owners of the walk-up structure have already found a new home for the snow cone building — the Dienger.

The Stand service stopped Aug. 18, according to Lisa Lunsford, who owns The Stand with her husband, Raymond. They purchased the riverside hut four years ago.

“Everyone remembers ‘Snow Cone Sandy,’ she was in here for 20 years,” Lunsford said. “When we found out it was for sale, I asked Raymond if he had any interest in buying the business.”

The answer was obviously yes, and Lunsford said business has been going great; “we’re always seasonally busy.”

In May of this year, however, the couple was informed by the landlords they were not going to renew the lease.

“They expressed no interest in buying the building, either,” she said. “So, we asked ourselves, what are we going to do?”

The Lunsfords, who purchased The Dienger Trading Post in October 2014, came up with the solution — move The Stand to a new home in The Dienger parking lot.

This weekend, the building will be disconnected from all utilities, hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved three or so blocks south to its new home, as “The Stand By The Dienger.”

“I just want people to know, when they don’t see the building down there anymore, what happened to it,” she said. “It’ll be a shock to some people, not seeing it there anymore after 24 years.”

The new location, behind The Dienger fronting West Blanco Road, offers parking access that has plagued The Stand where it stands now.

'The Stand will be The Stand,” she said. “We’re going to do our best; this whole thing has been a three-month process. We just made the best of it and kept on.”

The building will undergo a little remodeling and perhaps a color scheme change. But one thing that won’t change, Lunsford said, is the ice machine that was so popular with snow cone fans for the past two-plus decades.

The Lunsfords expect a mid-September reopening at the new site across from Main Plaza.

The Stand, which has served snow cones to Boerne residents and visitors from its riverside location for the past 24 years, has shut down and is being moved to a new home in The Dienger parking lot downtown.

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