Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Today’s picking of home parts, annotated:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The bus stopped here.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Twilight of the ranchitos supreme.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
After each flood, rebuild with taller floors.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What we say to ourselves when the casualties become regular.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Making the new possible, one farewell at a time:
WHO PUSHED THE BUTTON THAT BLEW UP THE DOWNTOWN MACY’S 
According to the Vice President of Demolition at Cherry Companies, which oversaw the demo: “the person who bought the building had his son do it.†His push triggered 1,500 pounds of explosives — the demo exec estimates on the Chronicle’s latest episode of LoopedIn — obliterating the structure and clearing the way for the 23-floor Hilcorp Energy Tower his dad would later commission Hines to build in its place at Dallas and Main St. Although technically a partnership connected to Doug Kelly, president of Hilcorp Ventures, “bought†the building around the time of the teardown in 2013, it was more of a shuffling-around than a hand-off. Hilcorp had already owned the former Foley’s since 2010; the later transaction just transferred it over to different entity under the same umbrella of corporate oversight. [Previously on Swamplot]
Crews have begun tearing into the building 4 blocks north of the Pierce Elevated formally known as U-Haul Moving and Storage of Midtown at San Jacinto in order to replace it with a new storage building nearly 8 times larger. About half the existing structure is down now thanks to the excavator that foregrounds the SkyHouse Main apartment building in the photo at top. Still standing: the entrance ramp to U-Haul’s rooftop parking lot — from which a fleet of orange trucks took off sometime before construction fencing surrounded the 28,376-sq.-ft. building late last month.
The new, 220,160-sq.-ft. facility could extend partly into the adjacent surface parking lot along Leeland St. according to plans the developer filed with the county earlier this year. Whether or not it does, most of the extra space will show up vertically in the form of something much taller than the 2-story that’s now crumbling at 1617 San Jacinto.
- Previously on Swamplot: Daily Demolition Report: U-Haul Away
Photos: Eric Ramon (demolition); U-Haul (building)
Be Right Back
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Seven properties swiftly ushered to a state of nonexistence.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Time to break the do-nuts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s kick the week off by kicking these off:
Today is teardown day at Andrew Schneck’s neighbor’s house, pictured above at 2021 Albans Rd. Schneck, a resident of 2025 Albans, was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison last month after admitting he tried to blow up the marble statue of Dick Dowling in Hermann Park using homemade explosives he stored in his Southampton house. During the federal raid of his house last year, members of the surrounding neighborhood — including those next door — were evacuated so that FBI and ATF officials could dispose of the “significant amount of material” they found inside through “controlled detonations” — which they warned could potentially cause damage to nearby structures. A blue tent set up on Schneck’s lawn — just off camera to the right — functioned as their staging area.
- Previously on Swamplot: A Southampton Blowup Over the Statue of Dick Dowling in Hermann Park
Photo: Swamplox inbox
Albans Smashup
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Where it all comes apart — unhinged and unglued:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here’s what we’re leaving behind:
