Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The one with the parking garage stairway doors.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The places we knew, now forever stuck in a different time.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Early dismissal at Braeburn Elementary; goodbye to a Tartan trio; and other residential removals:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Trailers can show themselves out. Homes will be escorted.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The end of Buffalo Bayou’s White House — the former headquarters of Caudill Rowlett Scott, long gone to the dogs:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
School out.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We carve our lives into this landscape:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Gone are the days we spent in and about these structures. So of what use are they to us now?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And that’s all she wrote.
The back portion of Eastwood’s Stephen F. Austin Senior High School off Telephone Rd. is in the process of being pulverized to make room for a new western section of the campus that’ll go in its place. Like the demolished section, the soon-to-be built 184,000-sq.-ft. portion will back up to S. Lockwood Dr. along Jefferson St. Asbestos cleanup preceded the current demo.
Workers’ next job will be to gut the interior of the school’s original 1936 front section along Dumble St. — but not until it achieves an all-clear from asbestos as well:
Eastwood Redo
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Rolling these off — for newer models:
This just in: Photos from a Swamplot reader show the wreckage at KHOU’s 58-year-old Buffalo Bayou–side headquarters, abandoned since staff fled it for Houston Public Media’s less flood-prone Elgin St. newsroom shortly after Harvey. Following a few days of demolition, the building at 1945 Allen Pkwy has been almost entirely leveled.
The second photo above shows the Service Corporation International building looming over the dead news building. An entity connected to SCI — a national funeral home business — recently acquired KHOU’s former 3.2-acre spot.
KHOU’s antenna — stripped of its lettering since February — is now the only thing that fronts the neighboring tower’s west side:
Breaking News
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Your double-top-secret private briefing on mysterious local building disappearances:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What do we know about these departing abodes?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Knock these down and a dozen even larger will rise in their stead.
