Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In this edition some Alabama shotguns meet the firing squad. Plus other demo details:
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Residences
- 2903 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 2905 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 2907 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 2909 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 2911 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 2913 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 2915 1/2 Alabama St. 77004 (Midtown Redevelopment)
- 306 Malone St. 77007 (Rice Military)
- 5337 Nolda St. 77007 (new construction by Sandcastle Homes; photos)
- 1238 Kinley Ln. 77018
- 2406 Brazoria St. 77019 (new construction by Urban Retreat)
- 3211 Exchange St. 77020 (Royal Terrace; duplex)
- 4130 Blue Bonnet Blvd. 77025
- 3610 Drummond St. 77025 (Braes Heights; photos)
- 3634 Maroneal St. 77025 (photos)
- 5545 Sugar Hill Dr. 77056 (Tanglewood)
- 13919 Myrtlea Dr. 77079 (photos)
Photo of 5545 Sugar Hill Dr.: HAR
All those row homes on Alabama were being sold as rental properties for some time. Guess someone finally bought them to knock them down.
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Even though they were ugly and ‘shanty’ looking, I liked them (for some reason). I think you could clean them all up and they’d be cute little student rentals.
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And since they were all their own single family units, you wouldn’t have quite the hassle with the city with respects to CoO.
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Anyway, Midtown Redevelopment has nothing on their site about this as a project or what their going to do. Google comes up with nada as well. Now I’m curious…
The fact that the pictured house in Tanglewood is a teardown literally turns my stomach. I’m no overly sentimental, don’t-ever-tear-anything-down type and I recognize the need and/or acceptablity for tearing houses/buildings down. But that? At least pick something that’s ugly.
I love that Alabama stretch of colorful little shot-gun shacks too. Looks to me like a Route 66 motel complex.