Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Start the week off right, Houston, with these smackers:
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Flavors of the past, mixed in dust, packed away.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A raw deal for a New Deal building downtown, and other local guttings of the day:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
To make way for the Houston of the future, we’re clearing away these remnants of the past:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No more auto service at the corner of Almeda Genoa and Del Papa, and other Houston withdrawals:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Turn the land as if rotating crops, for structures are our bounty.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Unraveling the Inner Loop, in 12 easy steps:
Crews are ripping into the 3-story Mediterranean house on the corner of Hyde Park Blvd. and Whitney St., as well as the adjacent bungalow that Clark Gable lived in for 2 years during his time in Montrose in the late ’20s. Already, the shingled structure has been reduced to the pile of lumber pictured above (although its doors remains intact).
It lost its face-off with the excavator pictured below just this morning:
L’Encore
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A grand Falloon home loses its Houstonian identity; plus demos in Shadow Wood and Wood Shadows:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The end for the garage of a garage; no more Mahoning for a couple of houses; more:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A mattress takedown in Sharpstown, plus these goners:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Begone, vanished spirits, from your former haunts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The replanting of Cottage Grove — and other Houston house-farming hotspots:
In other abandoned Montrose restaurant news: crews have finished smashing up the Burger King on Westheimer a block west of Montrose Blvd., leaving the property in fast food limbo ahead of its planned takeover by Houston’s fourth Shake Shack location. Pictured above is the restaurant’s drive-thru lane minus the accompanying drive-thru infrastructure.
A Cherry Demolition excavator is still picking through scraps left behind from the teardown; they’re now spread out atop the former building’s foundation, visible below:
Nothing-Burger
It’s crunch time at the vacated original Café Ginger in the northern portion of the River Oaks Shopping Center, where a new 30-story apartment tower dubbed The Driscoll is planned to rise up over W. Gray St. Views from beyond the blaze orange barricades scattered around the parking lot since site work began in March show the crushing scene.
Since yesterday, the building’s been spilling its guts out onto the pavement in this particular area:
The End of the Endcap
