Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I never see what has been demolished; I only see what remains to be demolished.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It is not enough to know your demolition craft – you have to have feeling.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And now’s the time, the time is now to demolish these places.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Build, live, demolish, repeat.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What we have once demolished we can never lose. All that we demolished deeply becomes a part of us.
A Swamplot reader sends photos of the partial demolition now underway along Commerce St. just off Colby in the Second Ward just north of East Downtown. Ancorian bought 3 warehouses between Commerce and Canal St. last November and plans to redevelop the site into a single dock-front building with a parking lot along its west side. The new development, dubbed The Block, would consist of 44,000 sq. ft. of “creative workspace and retail.â€
Here’s an aerial view looking west along Commerce St taken from before the demolition.:
Second Ward Redo
The 4949 Convenience Store, heir to the Sunrise Grocery spot on the northeast corner of Bissonnet and Shepherd, has been demolished — this time in its entirety, and with a little less fanfare. Back in September, crowds gathered to watch ceiling-mounted wrecking balls bust up parts of the building’s interior as part of a “site specific, kinetic installation” by artist Trey Duvall.
Cherry Demolition’s more conventional performance took place yesterday, a reader tells Swamplot; the photo at top shows the lot after it was cleared out this morning. A 3-story office building with a street-level cafe is planned for the site.
Boulevard Oaks
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.
There’s nothing left standing at Michelangelo’s Restaurant since its demolition yesterday — except for the tree that used to grow in its dining room, visible in the photo at top. The restaurant’s days had been numbered since March, when its owners sold the building and adjacent parking lot on Westheimer to a developer with plans to build a gym-anchored strip center.
The gym will be Houston’s first Spenga fitness studio, brought here by a Chicago-based chain that signed a 4,011-sq.-ft. lease for the replacement building’s entire second floor back in June. Here it is up above street level:
Avondale
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One that would have the fruit must demolish the buildings.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All fine architectural values are demolition values, else not valuable.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Loss and demolition, death and life are one. There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Keep your eyes on the demolitions, and your feet on the ground.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Yeah, she could demolish me over the bayou, send me away…
The Kroger once on the corner of OST and Cambridge St. is now demolished. These photos taken by a Swamplot reader last weekend look south toward a cluster of UTHealth buildings, right past where the supermarket stood before its Halloween-era teardown.
The parking lot was left intact during the demo.
Gone Grocery
