The CITY wants to tear down the main post office downtown (which would require building another huge post office in the area) to build more theater space downtown (public construction for private tenents).
Now there is no nostalgia in that but there is a lot of good old boy networking.
The train station "had to be" the center switching center for the city's proposed rail line. And when that was rejected it "had to be" the new ballpark.
A lot of "had to bes" there. Of course, they then had to MOVE the Star of Hope charity because they didn't want a long established homeless shelter near somebody's new pricey real estate.
Meanwhile South Main (where the old stadium is) is a declining sh!thole.
I agree that there are other things to take up with city hall than preservation of someone's private property. And even when there is preservation of a property, someone like Pappa's will start the demolition early on a Saturday and claim it was a mistake (recycling the old brick for their "retro restaurants).
Still worth noting the begining of the end for some visible landmarks.
Well, my dad is long gone now, but he cried over the demolition of the Shamrock Hilton and recorded it all on video. I've never had the heart to look at it again.
On the other hand, we were also happy when Chimney Rock finally went all the way through to I-10. Unfortunately, not long after it opened, we used it for his funeral procession out to Memorial Oaks from the new Geo H. Lewis.
Thanks to no longer being able to breathe Houston air, I haven't left my own neighborhood in 3 years. I used to love this city and can't imagine living anywhere else, except maybe OKC, but perhaps I'm taking my love a little too far. This is much, much too early in my life for this to have happened.