Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The wrecker is coming at last for the Tree Tops at Post Oak complex that Harvey soaked.
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Cue the exit music for a faith-based rehabilitation center in Third Ward and a humble shack or two:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These violent delights have violent ends.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Pack it up and pack it in, let us begin the destruction:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Bring on the bulldozers, the time has come:
The Memorial Club apartment complex at the Westcott St. roundabout is down to its final quarter following weekend deconstruction activity that left the 4-building, not-yet-redeveloped half of the complex itself cut in half. (Across the street, a 5-builidng portion of Memorial Club has been missing since new apartments dubbed Elan Memorial Park replaced it in 2016)Â By Saturday morning, the whole southern section of Memorial Club’s remaining half was gone according to a Swamplot reader, who sends the photo at top looking west to show that vanished portion, visible behind the oak trees.
Taking note of the demo, Google Maps has replaced its old photo of the apartments with one more indicative of current events:
At the Roundabout
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A former wheel repair shop is pulled out of rotation, plus some Rice Military turnover:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
An apartment complex, a distribution center, a church — demolition always delivers.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The former Berger Ironworks complex is going to the dogs, and Dot Coffee Shop gets crossed out along the Gulf Freeway:
The yellow excavator pictured above showed up yesterday in the driveway behind 912 Marshall St., a roughly 100-year-old home that’s been empty since its previous owners moved out December, according to a neighbor. Its new owner, an entity known simply as Montrose & Marshall LLC, also holds the deed to the vacant third-of-an-acre field next door that ends at the corner of — as you might expect — Montrose Blvd. and Marshall St.
Formerly home to a lowrise building, the deserted lot more recently served as a parking lot and is now doing time as a grassy backdrop for Bacco’s Wine Garden’s boozy patio next door:
912 Marshall St.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s plain to see that the end is nigh for these buildings:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Clearing out some industrial grunge on Manchester St. is a refined choice indeed:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Part two of the Jensen Dr. Goodwill takedown, plus a heavy helping of garage razing. How do you like them apples?
Tenants have been filing out of the 5-story office building shown above at the northeast corner of Richmond Ave and Eastside St. in anticipation of its planned collapse 2 months from now, according one employee who’s still inside but won’t be for long. Building management gave all occupants — including Imparali Tailor, luggage retailer Kipling, and dozens of other business and medical groups — notice last year that they’d need to hit the road.
Designed by Wilson, Morris, Crane & Anderson, the building is one of a dozen vertically-windowed mid- and lowrises that then-not-yet-famous Houston developer Gerald Hines built along Richmond in the early 1960s to accommodate businesses looking to spread out away from Downtown for the first time. (3100 Richmond, on the other side of Weslayan Eastside, was his work too, as well as 3101 Richmond, which sits catty-corner to the soon-to-be demolished building.) By the time the Richmond Ave corridor of similar-looking office structures was complete from Kirby to Weslayan, it had served as a sort of “MBA course,” write Houston architect Barry Moore and preservationist Anna Mod, “for Gerald Hines and arch-competitor Kenneth Schnitzer [of Century Development],” the 2 of whom soon graduated to designing taller and more notable Houston buildings inside and outside of Downtown.
- The Richmond Corridor [OffCite]
- The Business Strip [OffCite]
Photo: Capital Realty
Richmond Ave Adieu
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.
