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Knock it down, non BB but MMPUS area related
« on: August 12, 2006, 03:41:13 pm »
In the Houstonist blog, posted 8/12
The Ben Milam Hotel ?located across from Minute Maid Park?, has been vacant for more than two decades and may soon be history.
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Re: Knock it down, non BB but MMPUS area related
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 04:12:59 pm »
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In the Houstonist blog, posted 8/12
The Ben Milam Hotel ?located across from Minute Maid Park?, has been vacant for more than two decades and may soon be history.
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How could it be more profitable to tear the building down and build god knows what in its place (a train-themed restaurant?) rather than pull the asbestos out of that mofo and turn it into condominiums?
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Re: Knock it down, non BB but MMPUS area related
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 04:27:56 pm »
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How could it be more profitable to tear the building down and build god knows what in its place (a train-themed restaurant?) rather than pull the asbestos out of that mofo and turn it into condominiums?


You'd like to think that they'd have to take the asbestos out before they bring it down.  Especially when you consider that asbetos isn't dangerous until its dust gets into the air.
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Re: Knock it down, non BB but MMPUS area related
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2006, 05:43:49 pm »
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How could it be more profitable to tear the building down and build god knows what in its place (a train-themed restaurant?) rather than pull the asbestos out of that mofo and turn it into condominiums?


You'd like to think that they'd have to take the asbestos out before they bring it down.  Especially when you consider that asbetos isn't dangerous until its dust gets into the air.



Plaintiff's attorney lobby would have a COW if the asbestos were removed first.
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Re: Knock it down, non BB but MMPUS area related
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2006, 06:51:12 pm »
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How could it be more profitable to tear the building down and build god knows what in its place (a train-themed restaurant?) rather than pull the asbestos out of that mofo and turn it into condominiums?



You never know until you've had an engineer or architect take a look at it and tell you what shape it's in and how much has to be done to it to get it into better shape. I'm sure if saving the original building were cheaper, the developer would do that both to save money as well as to have the attraction of the vintage architecture.
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