Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Not much left there in Sunnyside South, and there will be much less elsewhere after this round of demos.
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Cleaning up what has already been started at a storage facility, and a couple of houses thrown in for good measure.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A whole corner of Mary Dumble’s old acreage gets wiped out, plus a few more houses sing their last song at the first of this month.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A 1936 River Oaks area home and a high school temporary building are just a couple of a dozen on the list this extra February day.
A reader caught a glimpse of the 1992 Solvay America building taking some more nasty blows from a demo crew out back behind the new 3737 Buffalo Spdwy. office tower south of the corner with Richmond Ave. (That’s the 2727 Kirby condo highrise glancing over at the scene from the right edge of the shot, while the distant Huntingdon tower looks away.) [Previously on Swamplot] Photo: Lufti Rukab
Octa-goner
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The former World Houston Golf Course loses more than a handful of buildings, plus a few homes get chipped away off the Houston green.
A rainbow sheen hangs at the foot of the Solvay America building as it crumbles back into the 3333 Richmond Ave dust from whence it came. A reader sends the above shot of the newly-stripped structure getting the ol’ hose-and-wrecking-ball treatment just before high noon today. The 1992 office building had its demo permit issued in late December; the building’s garage got one yesterday, just in time to join in on the fun.
The soon-to-be-formerly 8-story building is backed up against the 18-story office tower at 3737 Buffalo Spdwy. which wrapped up construction in November. Solvay has already shifted its offices over into the upper stories of the new tower, making way for construction of that 20-story hotel-slash-apartment highrise that was planned for the demolished building’s spot.
Meanwhile, the grove of oak trees northwest of the new construction seem to have weathered the construction as intended, and now stars prominently in PM Realty Group’s leasing brochure:Â
Breaking News
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Paddle or not, these pictureless properties will soon drift away and be a distant memory.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Making way for a new apartment complex on Hollister, plus Crane Street Woods gets downsized in today’s report.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The City takes a few more dangerous structures, plus HISD grabs another for Davis High School.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A possible church turns fast-food chicken, with some other appetizing changes to start out the week.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Say goodbye to that former Gulf Pointe Bennigan’s, plus a few houses make it on the list before the weekend starts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Attention Houston shoppers, we have a few properties on clearance, and they won’t last long!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just one more round to celebrate their last days.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A couple Mandell Place mow-downs, and a handful of others that couldn’t escape the President’s Day holiday.
