Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Memorial Bend just can’t hang on to its original stock, plus a few other tales of letting go.
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Demolitions
WAXING POETIC OVER THE DEMOLITION OF AN ALLEN CENTER SKYBRIDGE 
“The age of confinement is over,” pens Realty News Report editor Ralph Bivins this week in his first foray into real estate poetry. Bivins was moved to verse by the details released last week on the upcoming redo of the 3 Allen Center towers at Smith and Dallas streets — more specifically, by the fact that Brookfield’s plans for the site includes the removal of one of the skybridges between One and Two Allen Center, as well as the earthen berm beneath it. The demo will turn the long-sequestered landscaped green space between the buildings into a street-accessible events lawn. The rest of the poem, entitled A quick verse by R. Bivins for Kenneth Schnitzer, Texas Eastern and the prior generation of downtown development, can be read here. [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot] Rendering of planned Allen Center redo: Studio AMD
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Looks are deceiving for our early 1900s newspaper building, but clearing out all of these on the list is as clear as day.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These shall be swiftly expunged from the landscape without a trace.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Better get these out before the surroundings converge.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let these few escape below the horizon and out of sight forever.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They may be livable, but they’re even more smashable.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The end of of a 25 year fast food run awaits, plus a couple other bites out of the landscape to help round out the week.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fear not, what can’t be saved will start anew.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The lease is up and but a memory in a couple forests and beyond.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Grind them up to a fine dust and season to your liking.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This end will definitely provide a quiet place for something new.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Sending off April with a bang, crumple, smash.
What led up to the neighborly lawsuit filed last week over the former Houston Chronicle building’s planned demolition? A pair of letters filed with the county clerk’s office as part of the suit sheds a little light on the back-and-forth between the building’s new owners and their new neighbors. Plaintiff Theater Square, a partnership controlled by construction and development firm Linbeck, is developing the downtown block marked SITE in the map above, immediately across Prairie St. from the former Chronicle property (bought last year by Hines entity Block 58 Investors). Theater Square wants to link its own could-be-a-Class-A-contender block into the Downtown tunnel network (traced above in solid black).
The company sued both Hines and Chronicle owner Hearst News last week to stop the demo, claiming that Hearst gave it property rights to build a new tunnel through the newspaper building’s basement (via the route shown in stripes above along Travis St.) and that the demo (as currently intended) interferes with that plan. Theater Square sent a letter to Hines on April 15th citing news stories about the impending demo and requesting both access to inspect the basement and assurances that the demolition would be carried out in a way that doesn’t harm certain existing structures that the new tunnel’s already-semi-permitted building plans depend on.
Fight For The Right To Tunnel
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If we get rid of one, many more could go in its place.
