Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is no opera buffa but we’ll make the best of it.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Nothing to see here, not a thing.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The bottom line on these – you’ll just have to wait and see.
Yesterday’s unexpected acceleration of the parking garage demolition at Corporate Plaza hasn’t stopped plans to continue the ongoing deconstruction at Kirby Dr. and 59. An office worker across Kirby caught video of the narrow remaining slice of the 7-story structure tipping over and collapsing onto the excavator that had been tugging at a spot on the 5th floor.
The video (which also contains running commentary and a few surprised expletives) shows the other excavator and the rest of the demo team gathering as the dust clears to check on the operator, who emerges from the machine unscathed moments later. A Cherry Companies spokesman told CBS that the demolition work would continue as scheduled despite the office park’s attempt to turn the tables.
Turnabout at 59 and Kirby
An early morning post-deconstruction photo of the Mullins Dr. campus of the Medical Center Charter School (originally the St. Nicholas School, when the campus was private), just north of the Centerpoint transmission easement paralleling Willowbend Blvd. half a block to the south, was snapped by a reader yesterday. A representative of the school tells Swamplot that the 4-ish-acre property has been sold, and that townhomes are apparently in the works for the land.
Demolition permits were issued in two parts this week — here’s a shot of more cleanup going on this morning:
Clearing the Board in Willowbend
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s take one last dip before decimation.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The sixth building of the old Medical Center Charter School is coming down, plus a few further fateful falls.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These will be all over before you know it.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We’re rounding up some fierce properties to flatten.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You pull and pay and put away for good.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here’s a bird’s eye view of what’s to come for these houses.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Rosslyn Gardens loses Gold Cup, and we’re not talking soccer here.
THE REST OF RICHMONT SQUARE PREPARES TO GET LEVELED 
Residents of the Richmont Square apartments learned today that they have until May 1 to get out of the way of the bulldozers, writes Erin Mulvaney of the Houston Chronicle. The apartments, which are owned by the Menil Foundation, will be brushed away to make room for upcoming phases of the Menil’s unfolding master plan, announced back in 2009. The back third of the 1960s complex facing Richmond Ave was demolished at the start of 2015Â to free up space for an extension of W. Main St.; the Menil’s new Drawing Institute is currently being penciled in to the north of the remaining apartments. Richmont Square’s leasing office began to offer only month-to-month contracts by early January, though a set date for the eventual teardown had not been made public at the time. [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Photo: John Ronald via Flickr
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s start the week off with a few quick smash-ups, shall we?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Only parts of the structures on Aberdeen Way and in the Happy Hide (a) Way are leaving us, but the rest will quickly and entirely go down.
