Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Time to cough up those buildings you’ve been harboring. Let’s get at ’em.
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Commercial and Community Structures
- City of Houston Fire Alarm Building, 333 Preston St. 77002
- Pogue, 4411 Eli St. 77007 (Koehlers First)
- Gardner Asphalt, 6733 Silsbee St. 77033 (Santa Fe ISD)
- Elrod Elementary, 6230 Dumfries Dr. No. 813 77096 (HISD)
Residences
- Duplex, 2006 Binz St. 77004
- 908 Thompson St. 77007
- 4218 Lillian St. 77007 (photos)
- 1020 W. 22nd St. 77008 (more info)
- 614 Westmont Dr. 77015
- 422 Glenburnie Dr. 77022 (Glenburnie)
- 4506 Crane St. 77026 (Kashmere Gardens)
Photo of Fire Alarm Building, 333 Preston St.: Louis F. Aulbach
What is a, or was the, Fire Alarm Building? If you break the glass does the city orderly evacuate into the parking lot?
I believe it’s a central control station that manages dispatching. The original building was by world-class architects MacKie and Kamrath and was demolished in the 1970’s. http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/qn/kt1j49r1qn/files/kt1j49r1qn-photCL_MLP_0682_00102.jpg
I’m intrigued by the 2006 Binz site – there is no “duplex” there on Google street view, only an empty lot covered with grass – if anything was demolished there, it was months ago.
The city sold or leased this site to Fertitta so that he can further his abomination of the Downtown Aquarium. Slowly but surely Fertitta is turning the world into a bad amusement park.
Likely being demolished for additional aquarium parking.. Ugh loathe Tillman Fertitta.
For Binz they are probably looking to demo the foundation which appears to still be in place.