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Originally Posted by micahinsa
Meh. I'm kind of with Fryguy on this one.
I don't think the only choices are either leave it there or put in some crappy generic hotel chain.
I mean, if you could choose between redeveloping the remnants of that building or build something like the Thompson, or Floodgate, which would you pick?
Some stuff is worth preserving, this doesn't fall in that category for me.
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That building has maintained a very high level of architectural integrity. You describe it as "remnants" but it's fully intact. Even the Reyes Bar storefront looks like it's 100 years old, minus the float glass. If you think that building, made by hand out of cut stone, wood, and metal, with details created by craftsmen, is automatically inferior to a new building made of cast concrete and petroleum byproducts, then you just hate old buildings.
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Originally Posted by Fryguy
It took me one try of randomly pinning a location in Laredo downtown...
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near 598-500 Convent Ave, Laredo, TX 78040
https://goo.gl/maps/tR6GiX57vHA2
It's literally the same thing. Gross. |
All the buildings on that corner look really nice though. I don't understand what your problem is with downtown Laredo, it isn't "gross" at all. Downtown Houston is pretty disgusting though.