Main Street closed through Med Center this weekend

If driving along Main Street through the Medical Center is in your weekend plans, we're sorry, but you're going to have to come up with an alternate route: The northbound lanes of Main between University and MacGregor will be closed all weekend for the installation of a construction crane. The closure starts at 7 p.m. today and will continue until 5 a.m. Monday.

We assume the crane is being erected for construction of the new, 1.5 million-square-foot Methodist Outpatient Center, a 22-story building that will front on Main Street. It's being built on the site of Methodist's West Pavilion, which was imploded last summer. Houstonist is never one to waste a good implosion video, so here: Knock yourselves out.

This weekend, northbound traffic on Main will be detoured to Fannin during the closure.