Clearing a little more room around the table at Mai’s. Won’t you pull up a chair?
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What do a shed, a garage apartment, an unpermitted addition, and a Skyscraper Shadows residence have in common?
A well-balanced serving of destruction: one from the Heights, one from Shady Acres, and 2 from just north of Braeswood:
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, and no city permits of any kind were issued. The Daily Demolition Report will be back with more of the usual mayhem tomorrow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Five to none, baby. No one here makes it out alive.
Everybody out? The garden-center conquest of the Skylane West begins. Plus a bungalow in Independence Heights achieves independence from the Heights:
These five structures made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line for years, to represent you, this city. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team.
Dusted off and back on the market with a new . . . uh, MLS number for the new year: This Rancho Escondido number from 1986 out there in Willis, putting in at the far side of Lake Conroe. We’ve tracked it back as far as last May and a $975,000 asking price; the 4,535-sq.-ft. home on a half acre is now down to $845,000. From the street the 4-bedroom, 3-1/2-bath home plays it quiet and Ranch-like, but once you’re inside the animal-skin prints and views open up:
Tired of all that house chopping? You can cross these off your list:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These four sure had a lot of gall, to be so useless and all…
Nothing new to tear down in today’s report. Sorry. Don’t you have some unfinished finishing business you could keep working on?
A funky bunch of buildings gets ready to strip down:
Whaddya say? Should it be thumbs up or thumbs down for these prize residential properties? And . . . whose thumbs?
No permits were issued Monday — a day off for the City of Houston.