Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
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Demolitions
And that’s all for the 610 Allston St. bungalow Mary Cerruti refused to sell before she was found dead inside it last March. This past week’s demolition comes a little later than Trammell Crow had hoped when it began developing the adjacent 5-story apartment complex off Yale St. in 2013. After the developer’s attempts to buy Cerruti’s 6,600-sq.-ft. lot were rebuffed, it decided to build around both it and the same-sized parcel directly to its south. (Cerruti continued to speak out against the development even after construction began in 2013, appearing publicly at a planning commission meeting that February.)
Now, her property and the one next door have been snatched up by the same owner: Sandcastle Homes, an inner-Loop builder. You can see part of the company’s new 2-story handiwork at 606 Allston St. on the right in the photo above.
It went up over the last few months on what was once vacant land next door to Cerruti’s house:
Holdout No More
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Goodbye to a Heights house that swallowed its owner. Plus these others:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One if by land; two if by bayou.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What happens after the last burrito is wrapped:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Not before the fall:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Once we have reached the highest there is only one certain result.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Welcome to missing-house town:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A slight letup to the rush of demolitions in advance of Labor Day. But these are goners: CONTINUE READING THIS STORY
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A farewell to Sullivan’s, and these former outposts:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In today’s report: the fall of Westcreek Market & Deli, plus a small-budget takedown:
A pile of building parts is now all that stands in the way of the 4,500-sq.-ft. strip that Houston developer Ancorian wants to place at Yale and E. 27th, opposite the other shopping center it’s now ushering tenants into across the street. In place of the standalone Church’s Fried Chicken drive-thru — pictured above before and after its demo last week — a rendering now shows 3 newcomers lined up next to each other at 2702 Yale.
One of them carries on the site’s fast-food legacy with more of a niche focus:
Chickening Out on Yale
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Plucked from only the finest locations:
The brick Western Union building shown in black and white on the corner of Louisiana and Capitol streets vanished from the downtown landscape in 1983 — although it didn’t go anywhere. Because the longtime regional switching center was too expensive to move, architect Philip Johnson simply designed his much larger landmark — then-called RepublicBank Center Center — around it, sealing the telecom structure off from public view. Inside the skyscraper’s lobby, the dead building takes up nearly a quarter of the floor space, with its west corner wedged into the Bank of America Center’s own, catty-corner to Jones Hall.
Last year, renovations were announced that’d add a new restaurant and cafe in the doorless and windowless portion of the Bank of America Center’s ground floor where the building is entombed. Crews began stripping away portions of the office building’s exterior earlier this year in order to make room for new openings to access the eateries. They’ve now busted all the way through the red granite, revealing the decades-older facade that lies behind it.
It’s still mostly obscured by the scaffolding that looms over the Capitol St. sidewalk :
Western Union Sees the Light
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here come the retail clearances:
