Prudential Bldg to be imploded Sunday

Site will be “park-like”

David Crossley, Jan 04, 12.

The former Prudential Building will be demolished by implosion on Sunday. Now owned by MD Anderson, the building was the first high-rise corporate office building outside downtown, according to a Houston Chronicle blog:

...when the building, located off Holcombe near Main, comes down as scheduled on Sunday, onlookers are urged to wait for the video of it to hit the local media later that day, as Swamplot reported last year:

A notice in M.D. Anderson’s online employee newsletter warns demo fans to stay away from the early morning implosion. “There’s not any place you can go to view this thing and really see what’s going on,” declares project director John Chachere. But the article promises video footage of the controlled demolition will be distributed afterward.

It’s an inglorious end to a building that, as the city says, “represented a new era in Houston’s march toward becoming a dominant city in both the United States and on the international stage.”

Earlier Swamplot story
Greater Houston Preservation Association story (scroll down and click on “Lost” tab)