A refined and simplified list today, for your destructive pleasure:
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Commercial Structures
- Apartment, 2314 Wheeler St. 77004
Residences
- 2208 Riverside Dr. 77004
- 5123 Del Monte Dr. 77056 (pool, grading and fill; photos here and here)
Photo of 2208 Riverside Dr.: HAR
Put a red tile roof on that house and move it 200 miles west to the Jefferson High neighborhood in San Antonio and it would be right at home.
Yes, and San Antonio would never dream of demolishing a house like this–ugh, Houston sucks.
ALT story title: Everybody Must Get Stoned
A big plywood sign went up last week and the excavator started its grim work yesterday afternoon. I’m scared of what I will see when I drive home tonight, as I go right by there. It’s certainly unusual for the neighborhood, but the roof was in really bad shape and I hate to think what it would have cost to fix up.