Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
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Parts left over from the metal barn that Black Page Brewing leased out beside White Oak Bayou out a few years back are now lying in a heap next to a wooden skeleton that’s taken the demolished structure’s place. The deconstruction began last month according to neighbors who called 311 on August 31 to report that it was happening, potentially, they said, without the required permits. An inspector showed up the next day to check things out, one of several field trips the city would make to the planned brewpub’s digs at the end of Glen Park St. over the next few weeks in response to multiple follow-up calls from nearby residents.
By the time a demo permit did show up last Friday, the site had already been tagged twice by city officials: first for the premature teardown, and once again — as shown below — for additional unpermitted work:
Near Northside
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Sundry takings from South Post Oak — and beyond:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Try to remember the end of September: these demolitions and all that will follow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A golf course, 3 churches, a brewery, and 2 homes:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These have been claimed:
A Swamplot reader sends this photo of an excavator limbering up before the main event at 1638 Bonnie Brae St. Sandcastle Homes bought the nearly 90-year-old building in July and filed plans to build a new house on the property last month. It’s nestled within the Montrose sub-neighborhood known as Castle Court, a few doors down from Dunlavy St.
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Castle Court Crackup
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This row of houses, plus some follow-on clearance at UOS:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They’re making more of it:
Most of the corrugated metal buildings that occupied the inner sanctum at 620 W. 9th St. are down now, but the hidden Heights compound’s still got its edge. “There are strange things poking up from the fence,” the same ones that have been there for over a decade — reports a reader — sticking up, “like heads on spikes.â€
Actually, not all the props on W. 9th St. east of Waverly are heads; torsos, full bodies, and skeletal figures appear as well, along with some more abstract metalwork:
Neighborhood Fixtures
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s outta here.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Scrapped out of convenience; remembered when necessary.
A FINAL FAREWELL TO THE FORMER HOUSTON PRESS BUILDING 
The former alternative newspaper HQ at 1621 Milam St. that’s also done stints as an auto dealership will be demolished, reports the Chronicle’s Craig Hlavaty. Back when the Houston Press moved into it 15 years ago, the structure’s parking-lot sides were unadorned; artist Suzanne E. Sellers slapped her trompe-l’œil mural onto the north and east facades in 1994. Along Milam, however, things haven’t changed as much since the building’s first tenant Shelor Motor Company opened up in the ’20s — according to former Press staffer Abrahán Garza. Even its original 1920s glass windows — he reported — stayed put on the second and third floors through 2010. Now construction barriers are up around the whole block, and the property owner Chevron tells Hlavaty that a demolition permit is under review by the city. The oil company bought the 38,000-sq.-ft. structure in 2013, the same year Houston Press staff left it for a new spot on the corner of La Branch and McGowen. [Houston Chronicle] Photo: Capital Realty
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is automatic, systematic.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Even if the actual materials don’t get saved and used again, certainly the idea of having some kind of structure in some kind of place will be reused.
