Nate99
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I searched around a bit and found out that the deep hole in the ground on Fannin & Capitol used to be a parking garage, (I think) but why was it demolished, and are there any plans to build anything on the site? Based on the weathered plywood on the barriers, it has been in it's present state for a while. I tried to search around for it, but couldn't find anything more specific.
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I just walked around the block of the site, and they have crews crawling all over the brown building that fronts Main, with some others in the Montague. They have built scaffolding the entire height of the Stowers building in between it and the other one that is going to be demolished. I guess they must be going level by level on these taller structures taking them out from the top down. It would be fun to watch the Montague go down, any ideas on the timing of the implosion? The area definitely has the smell of recently opened crawlspaces that have not seen the light of day since the 1800
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Just a random update, I walk across the surface lot that takes up the space that DT is supposed to be built on (the block surrounded by Walker, LaBranch, McKinney and Crawford, IIRC) on a regular basis, and I noticed at least two perfectly circular holes about five or six inches in diameter near the corner of LaBranch and McKinney with markings spray painted on the pavement around them. I'm guessing these have something to do with soil samples that the builders might be taking. They probably showed up in late August/early September, if memory serves. Those who know more about the process can chime in as to what these might mean.
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The two black towers that are joined by a four or five story crosswalk over San Jacinto are 1 Houston Center and 2 Houston Center, I can never remember which is which. Part of the land that the Hilton Americas sits on (the NE corner of Jackson and Polk) was the Redwood Chemical Company that my step-father once owned (sold long before the city acquired the land for the Hilton), it had been on that site for a long time, possibly pre-war.
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Co-Cathedral Of The Sacred Heart At 1111 St. Joseph Parkway
Nate99 replied to Montrose1100's topic in Holy Places
I caught the news in the recent diocese newsletter, it will be open in April 2008. http://www.diocese-gal-hou.org/newsevents....thedralSchedule
