Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Follow the breadcrumbs to these disappearing sites:
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Commercial Structures
- Apartments, 2215 Jensen Dr. 77026
- 8145 Ethel St. 77028
Residences
- 1728 Michigan St. 77006 (photos)
- 5213 Kiam St. 77007
- 4321 1/2 Bennington St. 77016
- 2235 Mimosa Dr. 77019 (new construction by Kirby Davis Residential)
- 418 Gretel Dr. 77024 (Memorial Bend; more info)
- 9010 Kapri Ln. 77025 (Woodside)
- 4610 Lincolnshire Rd. 77048
- 5814 Cheena Dr. 77096
Photo of 418 Gretel Dr.: HAR
2215 Jensen is ruff ruff. Anything Jensen is ruff. Quietly as bad a street as anywhere in town. It will be a long time before the near-north side between 45 and 59 going north out of downtown sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
Lindale Park is not terrible (if you’re willing to pioneer and put up with such things as rail construction, being in a grocery desert, and the high numbers of things like city service buildings and half-way houses that are not far to be found.
The pictures look about as expected on this one.
Memorial Bend is being denuded. Perhaps we should call it Memorial Blender.
Lindale Park is not in a grocery dessert. There’s a perfectly servicable Fiesta at Fulton & Patton.
Is that a sunken tub surrounded with pot plants? I can’t tell for sure.
And when I see wood floors like those, makes me cry to think demo. Sure hope they get saved/reclaimed.
Someone purchased a home on my street for demolition well over a year ago, and have instead just let the empty house sit there, the driveway storing a flatbed trailer. There must be a law…grrr