City to Chron: Fix or Tix!

If you've walked by the Houston Chronicle's building downtown in the last.. oh.. FIVE years, chances are you've either seen or had to duck through some sort of scaffolding.  It seems like the City of Houston is getting a bit frustrated with the lack of progress to repair the  Chron's building facade.  According to Publics Works guru Wes Johnson, the City has repeatedly warned the chronicle to get their facade fixed soon.  Like several other downtown buildings, Tropical Storm Allison knocked portions of the Chron's facade loose.  Scaffolding was erected to keep debris from falling on people.  Johnson says the paper then hired JE Dunn to redo the outer facade. The company hasn't really been jumping the gun on the project.  Tropical Storm Allison happened in 2001, and as of today, Johnson says project is slated to finish up by 2008.  However, Johnson says the project has sped up noticeably since the City wrote a few warnings and actually threatened to levy fines!  I called up JE Dunn's local office, and a surprised project manager wouldn't go into details of the delay.  He was surprised that I managed to get his phone number, which I basically got by calling the company's main line in Houston.  The Chronicle's project is even displayed on the company's website.  So.. for all the downtown workers still going around the scaffolding, have no fear! Next year is near!

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[Matt Stiles]

Ouch.