Info on FRY street for this week

[ScoobyRoo20]

Apparently they are tearing down 1 or 2 buildings and there will be protesters out there. I Just don't know what day and time. ANyone have a clue?

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Bulldozers are supposed to be tearing down first building today.
Ch 4 news had shown about 10 people standing around waiting to yell and scream at them, actually there have been some tribute things done in the windows of some of the soon to be demolished buildings that could be interesting but they will probably be debri in an hour or two.

I was at UNT back in the mid 70's when Fry street was starting it's aura, beer sales had just started in Denton and there was a bar that was called the Frank n Stein that I knew the owner and hung with for a while-a couple doors north of the old Barber Shop.

Fry Street was always full of the people on the edge.

[dminton]

Mr. Chopsticks was torn down yesterday at 7am. It was an old gas station and there were some concerns about old fuel tanks buried underneath the location. The demo on the old historic buildings from the 1920s that are on the corners of Hickory Street and Fry Street isn't going to happen for a while. For now, the Tomato, Java Flakes, Bahgeri's, half of Cool Beans, Naraja, the Denton Police Station, Alter Ego, The Corckscrew, Fry St Barber Shop are all relatively safe.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Actually the bulldozer arrived there late, after 9 am, guess the lot is being scrapped now. Actually if I was the owner of the property I wouldn't start tearing down the other buildings until the summer break just to allow more people to be gone when it happens.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Cool Beans-one of the historic buildings- on Oak and Fry was torn down earlier this week, guess the rest will be gone soon.

[CalebSimpson]

Originally Posted by DEMDeepEllumMusic

Cool Beans-one of the historic buildings- on Oak and Fry was torn down earlier this week, guess the rest will be gone soon.

Actually Cool Beans is still there, United Equities can't do anything to that building Cool Beans owns it. HOWEVER, they now own the anex next door to the main building. It still stands though.

Chopsticks and the old Uncommon Grounds is torn down. Uncommon Grounds used to be The Argo. A great music venue. It was sadder to see that building go for me than Chopsticks.

I am working with the Save Fry Street organization. We are NOT happy with what is going on. Read the article in today’s DRC http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedconten...7.3382dc9.html but just note that they misrepresented us about midway through the article. United Equities told City Council we supported what they wanted to do, but that is far from the truth.

We want to see the historic buildings preserved. Ideally we would like it to just stay how it is, but the truth of the matter is the developer owns it and is going to do something with it. We just hope we can persuade him to keep the historic buildings in tact.

Just a little info about the historic buildings that remain, Java Flakes has an actual lease that runs through June 2007. So until then they can’t touch the buildings unless he buys him out or something like that. He also does not own the Campus Barber or main Cool Beans building so he is going to have to build around them.

I was out at the Chopsticks demolition protest and took some photos. I have them on my Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/pushstop/302823034/ I wasn't able to stay for the entire demo so only got part of the back wall coming down.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Yeah come to think of it they did say Common Grounds -or maybe the people on the TV said Cool Beans? I just know that one of the older buildings did get dozed.

I was in the West End in Dallas Tuesday night walking around and I found out where the House of Blues is going to be and it turns out that the old White Swan Building was so bad they had to basically tear it down but they are going through the expense of saving the facade of the building other wise over 90% of the buildin was removed and will be replaced. I talked to a guy who was on a smoke break from Hooters and he said once they went in to try to work on the building they kept finding more and more problems with its' stuctural integrity and other things so they ended up saving only a small edition on the north side and the facade. The Water Tank on the roof of the one section that wasn't taken down is painted up with the House of Blues Logo. So we have Hooters, Dicks Last Resort and HOB there now.