I wish I understood the concept of abandonment. Someone owns it now. No accountability. What's the matter with Houston anyway. If you leave your car parked in a restricted zone, you'd get more heat than leaving this travesty "parked" in the middle of town. Good almighty Grief.
I remembered Days Inn in spring 1995 when picked up a friend from California after her conference here and brought to our home for a few days. The place was so neat until it closed about 2 years. To rent cheap rooms to homeless, alcoholic and druggies. Until inspector found it wasn’t safe. Including dirty and vile. Kids keep trespassing including sprayed paint everywhere. And city warned to the current owner again. What’s next? Removed all windows and razed every floors until it’s empty. Boarded up lower floors. Repainted the griffins. And cleaned up. Downtown Houston has very few lodgings. Few new hotels have been built and old one was restored to new Holiday Inn too. Houston has sad history for shutting down wonderful places and some let leased to people with different culture that turned into ugliness and it’s still empty. Houston isn’t same as San Antonio. It’s embarrassing to live in Houston. Sad.
It was no longer The Days Inn by ‘95. It was converted to the Red Lion/Heaven On Earth Inn in early ‘94. It reopened as The Heaven on Earth Inn on September 30,1994. It became The Houston Plaza Inn in October 1995 and was soon converted to a Low Income Housing and attracted Squatters and Riff Raff, so the Whores and Crackheads soon started living there. It was June 1,1998 when the City of Houston and the County of Harris CONDEMNED the tower and had it shut down.
Numerous safety and building code violations. NO. Say it isn't SO. I'm sure glad the narrator mentioned it: Otherwise I would have though SURELY it's in compliance of codes!
