Currently underway: the partial disassembly of 1 of the 2 skybridges connecting One and Two Allen Center at the corner of Dallas and Smith streets downtown. The bridge pictured above is expected to survive the planned 3-tower redevelopment — a permit to remodel it was issued on Monday with some other OKs on the work, which includes turning the rubble-filled space to the east into a Smith-St.-facing events lawn and concert space. Renderings previously released by Brookfield suggest that the other skybridge, from which the above photo was taken, won’t be so lucky:
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The verse-inspiring doomed eastern bridge is still open while the western one gets worked over. Here’s the rest of the sequence of shots that reader Dave Hollas captured as work progressed yesterday:
- Previously on Swamplot: Waxing Poetic Over the Demolition of an Allen Center Skybridge; Turning Allen Center’s Center into a Concert Spot and Don Patron into Fine Dining
Images: Dave Hollas (photos), Brookfield (rendering)
I hope they don’t plant all those trees by the stage. That is what I have come to accept in Houston, telephone poles in the middle of a sidewalk that leads to nowhere, and a brand new concert space bookended by rows of trees.