Jury returns verdict in dispute over former Chronicle building demolition

Late last week, a jury awarded around $200,000 in a legal dispute related to the former Houston Chronicle site downtown.

The lawsuit was filed in Harris County District Court in April 2016 over the planned demolition of the former Chronicle building. The plaintiff, Theater Square LP, claimed the demolition would interfere with an agreement it originally reached with the Chronicle’s parent company, Hearst Newspapers LLC, to construct a pedestrian tunnel under the building to connect to a planned…

Source: Arizona Business Journal