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Old 09-22-2013, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Dallas,TX
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I agree, we really need to stop demolishing our history.

But at least Houston has plans for the lot. Dallas just recently demolished an 88 year old building. I heard a parking lot is going in its place.





 
Old 09-22-2013, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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I hated the Macy's building and glad it's gone. Not worth preserving.
If people could pick and choose what they wanted to be preserved, every historic building would be demolished. It's not what you like that makes it important.
 
Old 09-22-2013, 09:27 PM
 
Location: The Bayou City
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It seems like they preserved the base of some historic buildings in NYC while building a new tower on top but maybe that option wasn't feasible with Macy's and the current foundations, ect.
heres the tower i was talking about in NYC built on top of an old building.. Hearst Tower. the only think about Macys was the lack of windows would of been weird/undesirable if it was used as the base/lobby of a building.



get ready for more demolitions.. the Texas Tower and the old downtown Days Inn are both slated to come down for future projects (609 Main [Hines new office tower], and a park on the Days Inn site). neither of them are really worth saving though.. the Texas Tower lost all of its architectural elements a long time ago.

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Old 09-22-2013, 10:04 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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People said the same thing about the old Penn Station.

People don't realize that it was the first Department Store built without windows and it was fully air-conditioned.
Penn Station was not a block of concrete though. There was nothing about the building that I liked, and yes I've shopped there.

Is the fact that it was the first department store without windows enough of a feat to keep it? I don't think so. I'm not one for demolishing good looking or hugely historical buildings, we've done that far too much in this entire country but you can't keep every building just because it's old. The facade was terrible, now if it could have been refaced and the new building on top, then I would push to keep it, most definitely.
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I agree, we really need to stop demolishing our history.

But at least Houston has plans for the lot. Dallas just recently demolished an 88 year old building. I heard a parking lot is going in its place.
Not THIS is was unnecessary. Is there a strong preservationist group in Houston or Dallas? For example, a building like that in New Orleans would have never went down and the citizens would have tried to lynch the developer.
 
Old 09-22-2013, 10:19 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Dallaz View Post
If people could pick and choose what they wanted to be preserved, every historic building would be demolished. It's not what you like that makes it important.
Never said my opinion was important but neither is yours.
 
Old 09-22-2013, 10:35 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Not THIS is was unnecessary. Is there a strong preservationist group in Houston or Dallas? For example, a building like that in New Orleans would have never went down and the citizens would have tried to lynch the developer.
It's because the general populous in Dallas and Houston have no strong ties to the downtown cores.
 
Old 09-22-2013, 11:11 PM
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That Dallas demo was just sad. How are we ever going to have a unique historic area if we just keep demoing them? Especially for just parking lots. Most likely the city wanted to free up room for a developer to throw up some generic looking apartments.
 
Old 09-22-2013, 11:19 PM
JJG
 
Location: Fort Worth
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Originally Posted by JKAddict View Post
I agree, we really need to stop demolishing our history.

But at least Houston has plans for the lot. Dallas just recently demolished an 88 year old building. I heard a parking lot is going in its place.




Those could have been studio apartments... EASILY.
 
Old 09-23-2013, 12:56 AM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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Oh and Heres just a few more pics of the "HEART" of Texas

If Dallas is the heart of Texas, then Texas just went in to cardiac arrest!
 
Old 09-23-2013, 05:38 AM
 
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If Dallas is the heart of Texas, then Texas just went in to cardiac arrest!
The location is What makes Dallas the heart of Texas. It's literally is the geographic location of where Texas' heart would be.

Houston is the pancreas or left kidney....
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