Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Five different flavors from McIlhenny. Is this just a matter of taste?
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Count one fewer structure honoring the first African American to win the Navy Cross.
AMC’s Meyer Park 16 movie theater isn’t listed on the demo permit, but its address is. But will the new Kohl’s be open in time for the Oscars?
Something’s grinding to a halt at the former home of Crime Stoppers:
Just what is there left to clear on the corner lot next to Little Woodrow’s in Midtown? Plus: a garage in Sunnyside and single-story in South Park get the boot.
Residences
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Making a second or late appearance on the city’s permit report: a block of the Katy Freeway cleared several years ago.
CAN’T BEAT THAT TOUR OF ITALY “It’s getting more competitive out here, and the better restaurants are continuing to perform well and the lesser ones are being replaced,†— Planned Community Developers’ Steve Eubanks, comparing the success of the recently opened Olive Garden in the area to the recent fate of Amici Ristorante in PCD’s own Sugar Land Town Center. Amici, which is closing its doors after two years of operation, was developed by Bruce McMillian and Jeff Vallone, son of famed Houston restaurateur Tony Vallone. Eubanks describes the Olive Garden off the 59 Freeway at Sweetwater Blvd. in Sugar Land as already “one of the top-performing restaurants in the chain.” [Houston Business Journal]
A 28-story long-abandoned see-through Downtown hotel demolished for the views — but: the underground parking will be spared. (Phew!) Also: finishing off the Ella Square Apartments, and no more swimming at Candlelight Trails.
A sizable chunk of a just-north-of-610 apartment complex crashes to the ground, along with some littler residences scattered about town:
There they go again, on to that great master-planned community in the sky:
So many cute little diamond shapes on display at the front of this redone 1963 Ranch on the western bank of White Oak Bayou in Timbergrove Manor! And a few more show up elsewhere: In the tile floor of the breakfast room and den, and on the lily pond backstop wall. But still, so many other places a new owner could add them:
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Today: A few Thanksgiving leftovers. Finish them up, will ya?
How many stories are hidden within the walls — or better, are covering the walls — of this 60-year-old home on Tupelo Ave. in Pasadena, about a mile south of the city’s namesake freeway? There are so many sides to it. Including, inside, what looks like a theatrical one:
