cspwal Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Block 291, 1317 Austin St. I noticed walking to the Toyota center last night that the building on the corner of Clay and Austin had been demolished. Earlier I had seen warning signs on it about asbestos, but it was standing as of two weeks ago. Here's the building in question Building by Christopher Hisle, on Flickr HCAD says it's owned by GOLCONDA VENTURE - sounds like a holding company. Why would they demolish it? Asbestos infested buildings cost more to demolish right? http://www.hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%8D%81zie%8El%87tXtYW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A%81%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5EY%9B%C4%90uf%7B%A9%92%BEq%5E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HNathoo Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Those guys own a ton of lots in southeast downtown. I imagine they tore it down to capitalize on the great parking revenue they generate from that lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Fretz Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 That's too bad. It was originally built as the office of Irving Klein, Architect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted December 4, 2015 Author Share Posted December 4, 2015 Did a quick search on that and I found a picture from back when there were houses in downtown http://arch-ive.org/archive/irving-r-klein-building/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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