After years of safety concerns and multiple fires, county officials moved forward Monday with demolishing a long-standing Channelview hotel.
County officials said the property had become a chronic public safety concern, with at least seven fires reported at the site over the past year alone.
“This is a location that has been a chronic nuisance, a chronic problem for this community for far too long,” Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia said during Monday’s press conference…