Whence the Thundering in Downtown?

Posted on December 8th, 2010 1:18pm by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

All morning long, we’ve been hearing an intermittent thundering noise from high atop the St. Paul Place tower here in downtown. Anyone have a clue?

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Update: Great. So I’m sitting here asking co-workers if anyone else can hear the thunder and if they have any idea what it might be. Krista sits 5 feet to my right. She’s very attentive. She clearly heard my wonderings. And yet she let me put up this post, then wander over to the other side of our building and make what I thought was a pretty cool discovery. Yes, the Baptists are laying waste to their parking garage. Yes, I’m the last one to figure this out.

That said, I cannot overstate how disappointed Zac was when he saw the crane and its wrecking ball. “It’s not even a wrecking ball,” he said, staring down at the scene from our 21st-floor window. “It’s a parallelogram or something. That sucks. And he just drops it on the building? You’re supposed to swing a wrecking ball. This is boring. Man.” And so on.

Next question: what the hourly rate of the guy who drops the wrecking parallelogram?

14 comments

  1. It’s God. He’s busy building the new First Baptist giantorium, and smiting businesses on the naughty list.

    @ 1:21 pm on December 8, 2010

  2. Possible people tearing down a parking garage? IJS.

    @ 1:33 pm on December 8, 2010

  3. Probably the wrecking ball they’re using to demolish the parking garage on St. Paul.

    @ 1:37 pm on December 8, 2010

  4. Did they wish the parking garage a Merry Christmas before demolishing it?

    @ 1:47 pm on December 8, 2010

  5. In my defense, I didn’t see the post until just now. Also, you were so excited about finally figuring out what the noise was. I didn’t want to squash that excitement.

    @ 2:14 pm on December 8, 2010

  6. I [heart] Krista.

    Well played.

    @ 2:16 pm on December 8, 2010

  7. Most of the renderings we’ve seen of the new campus show the worship center and its Bellagio-wannabe fountain. Here is a less-seen rendering of their education building which will replace the Cotton Exchange garage:

    http://ascendio.com/fbd/images/gallery/full/education.jpg

    @ 2:20 pm on December 8, 2010

  8. I have a call in to Leslie Brenner regarding a list of top 10 downtown parking garages to be torn down this week near D headquarters.

    @ 2:43 pm on December 8, 2010

  9. Come watch them tear down Mrs. Bairds. They’re just sort of peeling it to pieces. They really should be required to use explosives on a building that size,–much more satisifying.

    @ 4:39 pm on December 8, 2010

  10. A parallelogram is two-dimensional and would not do much damage. I think you’re referring to a parallelepiped. (http://www.google.com/images?q=parallelepiped&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=bBYATerELIKclgeR5YXdCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=7&ved=0CGcQsAQwBg&biw=1690&bih=872)

    @ 5:38 pm on December 8, 2010

  11. Aww, snap, RAB just geometry’d your ass!

    @ 8:36 am on December 9, 2010

  12. Speaking of parking garages, it would be nice to do an inventory of downtown parking lots/garages (including their rates) and identify which ones are most valuable due to their location and which ones are prime for development (any near the Arts District, for example). I know the city owns the parking lot that will eventually become Pacific Plaza, which badly needs an underground parking garage to serve future building restorations like the Tower Petroleum building next to the Majestic Theater.

    @ 10:07 am on December 9, 2010

  13. Watching the Mrs. Baird’s bakery on Mockingbird get knocked down as I drive to work every morning is a lot more fun. They’re using an old fashioned round wrecking ball.

    @ 8:39 pm on December 9, 2010

  14. @Neal: YES. Tell it slower.

    @ 10:51 pm on December 9, 2010

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