The beginning of the end for Ben Milam Hotel? (http://www.arch-ive.org/benmilam.php) via swamplot.com:

…developerMarvy Finger says he’s planning to build Downtown as well, reports Real Estate Bisnow‘s Catie Dixon. In the works: an 8-story midrise at the corner of Texas and Crawford St. Yes, that’s the site of the 1926 Ben Milam Hotel, a long-vacant 10-story building remembered as the first Houston hotel ever to feature air conditioning.

http://swamplot.com/finger-going-after-fingers-ben-milam-hotel-downtown/2012-04-17/