Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Some buildings are merely illusions, albeit very persistent ones.
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Every house is a quotation from all its ancestors.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
After all, 1,400 square feet is so last century.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is the land where everything changes.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You always lose by holding back, so let these go at full force.
An excavator was spotted bowing its head yesterday afternoon in the freshly cleared spot at 12740 Memorial Dr., until recently populated by the likes of Baskin Robbins,  Anne’s Salon, and A-1 Cleaners. Per an associated leasing flier for the property, the newly blanked space looks to be slated for drive-thru bank-dom, with a place next door for a retail friend.  The land sits immediately next to a Bank of Texas branch (visible over the fence on the left), itself across W. Bough Ln. from a freestanding Chase. Heading south down Memorial Dr., a Prosperity Bank keeps watch over the next Memorial Bend bend with help from the strip-center BBVA Compass branch across the street.
- Previously on Swamplot:Â Memorial Dr. Baskin Robbins Strip’s Planned Departure Could Make Bank, Retail, Parking Spaces
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Making Bank
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Today’s finishes are tomorrow’s rubble.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is the only truth that sticks.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
So let it be permitted, so let it be done for.
The brutal Sunday scene at the former New Hope Missionary Baptist Church was caught by a reader on Goliad St. in First Ward this weekend.  The 1940s structure is making way for new CitySide townhomes; 3 lots in the new 7-way split will face Goliad, while the other 4 keep watch on Crockett St. Here’s a look from Crockett at building’s insides spilling out under the guiding influence of that excavator, and of the corner tower’s last stand:
Last Stand in First Ward
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A lonely cottage will soon give way to several townhomes. In the meantime, heed the agent’s advice and enjoy that extra deep lot.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These were loved, and now set free.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Cozy and charming and brought down to the ground.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Don’t worry, they’ll all be crushed soon.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Memorial Forest may echo, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
