Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There are houses you can replace, and others you cannot; the time has come to weigh those things.
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These are too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually demolish them.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s nothing something shiny and new can’t fix.
For now, this is the new order of things on the block between Shepherd and Durham drives along the northern I-10 feeder road. The former Fresh Car Wash, whose owners appear to be the ones behind that combo car wash and hookah bar at the corner of Dallas and Taft now going by the same name, was knocked down some time after it showed up on the demo roster last month (paired with the nextdoor branch of Big 10 Tires). In their places will go what could well be the third Inner Loop incursion of Raising Cane’s, which has now staked out more than 20 spots around Houston for its steadily creeping chicken fingers.
Nesting on I-10
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
He didn’t leave much to Ma and me, just this old house and an empty bottle of booze.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All the zip codes in a row, and Society of the Sacred Heart must go.
That’s pretty much it for the surface-dwelling sections of the Houston Chronicle‘s former bundle of headquarters structures at 801 Texas Ave. — a reader captured the minor dustup above on Friday, and activity on the site is now mostly at or below ground level. Work to shore up the section of basement the district court ordered Hines’s Block 58 to leave behind (for tunnel use by Linbeck-controlled neighbor and plaintiff Theater Square) was mostly wrapped up last fall, according to some December court filings.
Other documents filed as part of the case show that the legal compromise set up last summer (which allowed the demo of the Chronicle building to go forward after all) has hit a few bumps since then: Theater Square filed a motion to find Block 58 in contempt of court late last year, and a trial appears to be scheduled for June.
Texas Ave. Tunnel Tussle
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Sometimes neighborhoods don’t feel like they should.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not demolished well.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Everything becomes a little different once it is demolished out loud.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We may be personally defeated, but our demolitions never!
The rapidly disappearing elevated segment of Elysian St. pointing north out of Downtown is the latest aging roadway structure to be crumbled apart, though it won’t be the last. But death is a natural part of the Houston roadway cycle! And a healthier, brawnier replacement viaduct is planned to take its place along roughly the same right-of-way — this one with broad shoulders and a sidewalk. TxDOT spokesman Danny Perez told Houston Public Media‘s Gail DeLaughter last month that work on the new structure, which connects Downtown to Near Northside by funneling drivers over Buffalo Bayou and I-10, should start before the demo of the mile-and-a-half-long original wraps up.
A hunched excavator was spotted helping to bring the aging bridge down from above:
Traffic Cycles in Near Northside
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Build me up, buttercup – really high up.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In every demolition, the hidden silence sleeps.
