Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The old Million Air building on Telephone gets a first class upgrade, plus almost a dozen houses get a one way ticket to the dumpster.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just wait and see, these are going to be top-notch.
The progress on the piece-by-piece disassembly of Corporate Plaza I can be seen in the above overcast shot of the building’s increasingly skeletal profile, here partially obscured by 2 American Red Cross buildings and by a Texas Direct Auto billboard. The 1972 midrise on 59 just west of Kirby Dr. is the last and tallest of the 3 similarly-clad office buildings previously occupying the site; the tower’s facade started to go missing shortly before the way-faster-than-intended teardown of the last of the plaza’s 7-story parking garage, which nearly turned the tables the demo team on its way down last month.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
That 1962 building on Richmond and Eastside is past its prime, plus a couple more houses are reaching their expiration date.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Yogurt, coffee, salon, chicken – the opportunities will be endless.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The gas station turned fish market closes up shop for good, plus a handful of houses to start off the week.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And now, even more scarce.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
As seen from above, it doesn’t look good for down there.
The majority of the pecan tree formerly growing at the northeast corner of 509 Louisiana St. has, as of yesterday afternoon, migrated to the far southeast corner of the adjacent lot at 517 Louisiana. A reader sends this snapshot peeking in on the scene from the lowercase alley behind the Lancaster Hotel (visible on the far left) toward the capitalized Alley Theatre in front (visible at the top of the shot, behind the small flock of green recycling bins). The reader disavows any claim to professional tree expertise, but notes that “the rotting story may have some validity.” (It remains to be seen whether the misty figure of Chief Bowl will follow the logs, or remain rooted to their former home.)
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You better hurry, these won’t last!
The former home of the House of Pain’s developer is shown above in a world of hurt this morning, as a demo crew tackles the longtime residence of Oilers-turned-Titans owner K.S. “Bud” Adams Jr. at 3218 Del Monte Dr. in River Oaks. The Oklahoma-bred oil baron moved into the 6,604 sq.-ft. house with his wife in 1954; having survived his wife, Adams died alone at his desk in the house at age 90, in October of 2013Â — just days after the death of Bum Philips, the glory-days Oilers coach Adams hired and fired.
The demo permit for the building was issued on the 16th. According to the photographer, the shutters pictured above and below were long the same Columbia blue once donned by Houston fans:
TREE PROFESSIONALS: PECAN AT 509 LOUISIANA ST. WOULD HAVE JUST DIED ANYWAY 
The pecan tree formerly behind the former Longhorn Cafe on Louisiana St. is down at last, following the 100-plus-year-old buildings at 509 and 517 Louisiana into that Great Big Preservation District in the Sky. Nancy Sarnoff of the Houston Chronicle reports that 2 arborists were called in to examine the tree, and pronounced it dead-or-close-enough: Lauren Lusk Willis, a member of the family that owns the next-door Lancaster Hotel, told the Chronicle that a lightning strike had damaged the tree, and that its core was rotting. Willis said that the pecan “would not likely have survived the leveling of the lot for any construction,” and that “ultimately, it wouldn’t have survived regardless.” The tree, haunted by a both-Sam-and-city-of Houston ghost story, was long visible only to those who entered 509 Louisiana’s hidden courtyard, until the pecan’s 2001 outing by the demo of the Rice Rittenhouse parking garage; it went back into hiding by the end of 2003 with the help of 33-story Calpine Center. [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Photo of the pecan tree, following demolition of 509 Louisiana St.: KineticD
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A great opportunity awaits to clear the path and start from scratch.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No more gifts, toys, or martial arts at that small muraled building just east of downtown, plus three houses and a garage apartment get cleared to be cleared to start off this week.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A short, pictureless list to end the week, but fear not — there are plenty more to come.
