Teardown work started yesterday morning on the parking garage behind the Corporate Plaza II and III buildings (shortly after Blanco’s got hosed down less than a mile away). North and east of the garage (that’s center and left in the above photo), the last crumbs of Miyako, Madras Pavilion, and Red Onion were swept away earlier this month.
A reader with eyes glued to the unfolding carnage sent the above overview shot, which shows the Corporate Plaza I midrise hiding unsuccessfully behind the disappearing parking garage as it awaits its own upcoming erasure. The next-door headquarters of the Houston chapter of the American Red Cross are visible on the right side of the photo, as a West University water tower gives the building bunny ears.
Another reader sends these shot of an excavator gingerly yanking at the bottom of one of the interior support beams of the 7-story structure early yesterday afternoon:
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. . . And here’s what happens when you do that:
- Previously on Swamplot: Sweeping Up the Crumbs at the Former Home of Miyako, Red Onion, and Madras Pavilion; Demo Crew Now Chewing Through Former Miyako, Red Onion, Madras Pavilion Office Complex on Kirby at Norfolk
Photos: Anonymous (top) and Blake Segafredo (close ups) via Swamplot inbox
What are they going to put on that enormous plot of land?!?!?!?!
Soooo wish I could be the one operating that excavator. So much destruction! Muahhahahaha!
Isn’t it cool how the concrete decks look flexible?!
Glad that concrete is sorta recyclable and ‘green.’
Texmex01,
Lately I have been hearing that the market was in dire need of new office space.
@Texmex
You comment reminded me of the scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
“She has huge….. [holds hands chest high]….. tracks of land.”
That is all [snickers and throws ball of paper at across office].
Whatever happened to the Executive Inn or Motor Inn Hotel which was the building of the complex next to the feeder of the freeway?
I worked there in 1969 when it first opened and learned after I quit that it might have been owned at one time by a mafia owned group out of California. There seems to be no available information on this hotel.