It’s a full-on comedy breakup.
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Demolitions
In honor of the service and many sacrifices of our nation’s veterans (and the small matter of there being an official day-off for city employees), no demolition permits were issued yesterday. We’ll return to our regular demo cataloging tomorrow.
Here lie the remains of the New Flea Market, the most recent occupant of a strip mall site at 8315 Long Point Rd. that once was home to the  Spring Branch K-Mart. Workers are scraping an 8-acre parcel of the larger site at the corner of Hillendahl Blvd. to make way for the Village at Spring Branch, a 100-home David Weekley development offering three-story townhouses and garden and patio homes ringing a pool and cabana. Blue-light specials will be offered around $400k; premium buys will go on sale at $700k. Retail — and the tiny, historic Hillendahl Cemetery (captured below in an old photo) — will remain along the Long Point frontage.
What’s New Is Old
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And here we go, kicking off another great week of removals.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s moving time for house ghosts.
Clearing out the Addicks Dam subdivision — and other coming disappearances:
If future residents of the new 8-story apartment building that’s being planned to go up in place of the El Tiempo 1308 Cantina and quite a few of its neighboring buildings don’t want to wait around for management to fix their leaky faucets, they won’t have far to go to find spare washers or other plumbing parts. Neighboring fix-it-yourself plumbing supply store U-Plumb-It will likely still be around to sell them parts and hand out advice — because it won’t be included in the redevelopment. But everything north of it, on the block bounded by Marconi St., West Clay St., and Montrose Blvd. will. Developer Sunrise Luxury Living is planning to build 5 stories of apartments — 220 units in all — over 3 levels of parking, a source tells Swamplot. Plans currently include some sort of retail component on the bottom floor, facing Montrose Blvd.
More Redevelopment Details
The vanquishing of Memorial Bend’s former sales office, and other not-so-surprise endings:
