The former Mental Health and Mental Retardation Association building at 2850 Fannin St. and its many murals are now rubble, a reader notes. The shot above catches the destroyed structure next to Sebastien Boileau’s Preservons la Creation mural across the street on the back of 2800 San Jacinto St., juxtaposed with what appears to be some carefully timed oncoming traffic to add that dramatic glow to the painted figure’s outstretched spray paint can. The reader also caught one of the excavators climbing atop its defeated adversary earlier in the day, beneath the giant cross of the St. Joseph Professional Building:

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• Previously on Swamplot: Multiple Excavators Divide and Conquer Former Midtown Mural Hub; Mural-Slathered Former MHMRA Building Readies For The End; Scenes from a Midtown Gas Leak Response; Daily Demolition Report: Willowbroke; Midtown Muralist Outed by Metro, Has Day Job . . . at Metro; Among the Giant Bugs of Midtown, Up on the Roof; Thanksgiving in Midtown: A Bird Is Born; How You Can Help Large-Scale Graffiti in Midtown Get Off the Ground; Daily Demolition Report: Freed at Last

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