Apparently not as many people are remembering the Alamo.

The Waco Tribune reported over the weekend that the Magnolia Market at the Silos is poised to beat the famous battle site in number of visitors this year.

The downtown Waco retail destination developed by HGTV Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines is expected to hit 1.6 million visitors this year, which is a couple hundred thousand more than the Alamo Mission is expecting.

The Waco Tribune article contemplates how the show's ending will impact the halo effect the Gaineses have brought to the Central Texas city.

The fifth and last season of Fixer Upper starts on Tuesday. The 19 episodes will run well into 2018. The Gaineses said in September that they plan to end the show saying they needed "to step back and get some fresh vision and hunker down with our kiddos." In May, Joanna and Chip will star in a new spin-off series, Fixer Upper: Behind the Design. The half hour show is about how designs were created in the Fixer Upper episodes, HGTV said in October.

The Gaineses have been a big part of the economic revitalization of Waco. Now they employ about 600 people in Waco to help them run the various businesses they had before the first season of Fixer Upper aired in 2014 and since.

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