Taking out a downtown park and parking garage, plus other fun-to-vanquish sites:
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Yee-haw! Here’s a little list we’re building for the city’s upcoming Demo Day:
The city restarts its demo engines. Plus, these great addresses for destruction:
After hearing news that a homebuilder bought the 8-unit 1939 brick-and-glass-block Josephine Apartments 2 blocks north of Rice University in Boulevard Oaks, it may not come as much of a surprise to learn that the building’s new owner plans to tear them down. But today a source provides confirmation that demolition and new construction is in the cards: Tricon Homes has informed residents that they will need to vacate the property by mid July.
Tricon Conquers Boulevard Oaks
Today, we mark the end of a well-known Houston wedding venue — along with a few lesser known marriage venues.
Is it Houston’s own temporary Flatiron building? Or just a bunch of soon-to-be-flattened steel? Readers passing by the continuing takedown of the 61-year-old 10-story office building across from Kroger at the corner of Montrose Blvd. and Hawthorne St. that used to house Scott Gertner’s Skybar have been sending Swamplot their photo impressions of the scene, which has been changing — and disappearing — daily.
Here’s a bit of what a few Swamplot readers have seen and captured over the past week or 2:
Skybar Takeaway
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Dig deep into the neighborhood, and explore its roots. Then yank them out.
There’s very strange vibrations, piercing right to the core. . . . Tell me why is it so? But I never can say goodbye.
Here’s the scene at the northeast corner of Washington Ave and T.C. Jester this weekend (the view is from Schuler St., to the north), where lots are being cleared for a new apartment complex. It’ll be called the Pearl Washington Ave, after the other Pearl-brand apartments the Morgan Group has developed around town, but not necessarily after Washington Ave’s Pearl Bar. Permits filed with the city don’t yet indicate the size of the project, but the newly assembled parcel at 5424 Washington Ave measures 3.1 acres and extends all the way to Detering St. And commenters on HAIF are noting that it’s expected to be 8 stories tall — and may include some sort of retail space. Buildings currently on the site, including Gary Fruge Automotive, are being removed.
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8 Story Apartments, with Retail?
