Main St. Mod Code Building Under Assault From Rooftop, Ground Level, Interior

Demo of Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

A gang of smaller machinery is seen spreading out across the roof of 3300 Main St. in the shot above (capturing a reader’s view of the scene from the HCC midrise next door), as a larger excavator works over some of the rubble piling up at the site lately. Also visible behind the former city code enforcement building, to the south: the now-in-full-swing MATCH theater building, and the rising facades of some of the apartment midrises going up on the Mid Main block.

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Permits came through toward the end of August to clear the 1967 mod office spot out of the way to make room for PM Realty’s planned mixed-use apartment highrise, which would be the first highrise in Midtown — though not the last, if the highrise project by Australian developer Caydon gets off the ground as planned at 2850 Fannin up the street.

Photo: Swamplot inbox

Midtown Falling Flat, Rising High

7 Comment

  • An unbelievable amount of suffering took place within those walls. They should remove the dirt 6 feet down and incinerate it as well.

  • Salt the earth…

  • J, I agree. I’d like to keep a brick from that building. Or pay a few bucks to be able to do some of the demo myself.
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    Some of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever had came from that building. It was pretty much what stopped me from buying distressed properties to fix up.

  • I’m convinced some of the workers in that building were prior concentration camp guards.

  • I just moved back to Houston after a few years away so haven’t been following swamplot–@cody, you’re out of the fixing up and running buildings-with-beautiful-exteriors-but-horrible-management-and-questionable-tenants business? There are so many places in Montrose/Midtown that are incredibly thankful that you turned them around a few years ago… You were a one of a kind developer.

  • Unfortunately, suffering has only relocated to nicer digs.