Giant Halliburton building to be demolished this week

The former Halliburton building, a bow-tie shaped behemoth in west Houston, will be demolished this week in preparation for a redevelopment of the nearly 50-acre site near the corner of Bellaire Boulevard and Beltway 8, the developer announced.

The concrete building at 10200 Bellaire Blvd. was completed in the late 1970s for construction giant Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Houston-based oil field services firm Halliburton. It has been vacant for about five years, but at its peak the 585,000-square-foot building housed as many as 2,700 employees, according to a statement from Johnson Development Services.

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