Filling out a missing properties report — in advance. Here’s what we’ve got so far:
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Demolitions
Piece by piece, building by building, we are ripping ourselves a new city.
What’s that giant red crane looming downtown on the block surrounded by Main, Texas, Fannin, and Capitol? Assembling another crane. Which, in turn, will do all sorts of nasty business to the 21-story Texas Tower, which happens to be in the way of the shiny new 609 Main St. office tower that Hines plans to build on that block. The Texas Tower’s original Art Deco details were removed in the 1940s; back then it was known as the Sterling Building. It went up in 1931.
Knock-em-Down ’Scrapers
It’s the final buzzer for the Delmar Fieldhouse — and these other fine structures:
Moving along at a steady clip — use these addresses to map the path of destruction:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s begin the week with the end of these:
A reader reports the sighting of an excavator and dump truck next to shuttered coworking space Caroline Collective at 4820 Caroline St. between Rosedale and Arbor Pl. in Museum Park yesterday. Plus, pictured at right, a little tag indicating that a required pre-demo sewer disconnect has been completed for the converted office property. “Sure enough, the time has come for it to be torn down,” the reader opines. “It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what will be going up, but according to [someone I ran into on the site] the correct answer is: townhouses.”
Digging for Homes
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If you could pull this thing out we’d be eternally grateful.
A quickly appreciating property on Piping Rock, and other demolition tales:
City permit offices were closed Tuesday and Wednesday, so we’ve got no demos to report.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In which we teach these properties a few important end-of-life lessons:
