The Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee posts an update on trees being removed from the median along Allen Parkway:
Former Houston Chronicle business writer Greg Hassell wonders why trees are being removed from the Allen Parkway median from Taft to Shepherd.
Some of those remaining but marked with red paint “looked a little shabby as if some disease had got them,” he said.
The good news is that the median is not about to be paved over. The bad news is that the 33 trees, all Shumard oaks from Tennessee, have failed to thrive in Houston’s climate.
“I have no idea why they decided to buy them from Tennessee. Nobody here remembers,” said city parks spokeswoman Estella Espinosa.
I wonder if the purchase was made during the glory days of Parks Director (and, as we now know, crook) Oliver Spellman during the Brown Administration. UPDATE: No. As a commenter points out, the story says the purchase was made in the 1980s, predating Lee P!
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