Fourteen soon to be forgotten houses have a date with destruction. Our list begins after the jump.
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A Heights institution falls. That and more in our daily list of demolition permits—after the jump.
On today’s knock-down docket: Portions of four businesses and six houses. Read ’em and weep—after the jump.
A cold death for Flamingo Chill on Airline. That and more in our daily list of sunsetted structures, after the jump.
For a while, it looked like the effort to save the last five acres of the West 11th Street Park property from impending townhome development was going to fail. Having put up those acres of parkland as collateral for a bridge loan from Amegy Bank that allowed the city to purchase the remaining fifteen acres of the park, the Houston Parks Board had given park supporters only until August to raise $3.75 million to pay off the loan.
Private donors reaching into their own pockets were able to raise only about a quarter of a million dollars. Meanwhile, one donor was looking in other pockets: In the last legislative session, State Senator John Whitmire was able to slide funding for the park into the state budget for local parks grants. After some confusion, it now appears that Whitmire’s bill will allow the property, long a merely undeveloped HISD property with tall trees, to become an official city park.
Now what happens to the private funds already raised for that purpose?
- Pop the Corks! It’s Official: 11th Street Park Saved! [Jeff Balke, via Metroblogging Houston & Off the Kuff]
- State money may save West 11th Street Park [Houston Chronicle]
- West 11th Street Park [Houston Parks Board]
- West 11th Street Park [Friends of 11th St. Park]
- Save the West 11th Street Park!!! [Save This Park]
West 11th Street Park Photo: Houston Parks Board
Friday meant the beginning of the end for 10 Houston houses. The list begins after the jump.
Knocked down in Houston: Six end-of-life houses—after the jump.
Here’s a building method that seems well-suited for Houston: It’s fast, it’s temporary, and it involves both shipping containers and fine art. Remember the demolition permit for the site on 11th Street in the Heights we mentioned a few days back? By Friday, it’ll have a completed building on it, according to ‘stina, who wrote in her LiveJournal Wednesday:
Today, the shipping containers will be delivered and installed to the new site of the 1400 square foot gallery, and you can see for yourself what this form of construction looks like. They started this morning with merely a few spread footings and grade beams and they’ll finish this evening with all the containers set and a good portion (if not all) of the roof in place.
It’s the new Apama Mackey Gallery, pieced together out of three shipping containers by Numen Development. The gallery will occupy the site for a few years, until the landowner is ready for a more permanent development in that location. Then Mackey will be able to move the gallery to a new lot she hopes to find in the meantime.
Some of the project’s green features, according to ‘stina’s report:
- From conception of the idea in March, it has been three short months to a nearly final product!
- The Mackey Gallery is built to be moved and reassembled with less than 5% waste.
- Custom panelized roof and floor system utilizing Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs are extremely energy efficient and virtually eliminate the need for traditional framing while dramatically reducing waste and build time.)
- Clerestory panels and office windows made from Polygal. (An insulated polycarbonate that is more energy efficient than glass, yet less expensive and more secure.)
- The job site for the Gallery will need NO dumpsters because the building process has so little waste.
- Even the parking lot will be made of Permeable Paving squares which are green, and reusable.
- Assembly [Texaslawchick, via Offthekuff]
- Apama Mackey Gallery
- Numen Development
- Daily Demolition Report: Coming Down from the Heights [Swamplot]
Photo: Flickr user Ross Dunn
Six houses bite the dust today, including a pair on adjacent sites on Houston Avenue, just north of Downtown. The list is below.
Today’s list of Houston demolition permits features six houses ready to bite the dust. Where are they? Keep reading.
Coming down soon . . . in a neighborhood near you! It’s our daily report of sold demolition permits. Our list of casualties approved Friday begins after the jump.
Demolition watching is an unofficial but popular sport in Houston. Unfortunately, media outlets here have not served fans well. Sure, you’ll hear about the occasional announcement of big weekend implosions, but what about the many smaller demolitions that happen every day? Unless you’re in the business, you learn about them only after they’ve happened.
Today, courtesy of the Houston Planning & Development Department’s Code Enforcement group, Swamplot introduces a regular feature: daily reports of sold demolition permits. Houston Demo Derby fans now have an easy way to find out what’s coming down: just check with Swamplot.
Keep in mind that these reports are a day late. Permits for the demolitions we report today were sold yesterday. This means demolition groupies will have a pretty good chance of catching the action in their neighborhoods. But it also means that enterprising demolition professionals in a hurry to tear down a building may already have begun—or completed—their (no-doubt fulfilling) jobs.
What demolitions were approved yesterday? Read on, and we’ll reveal the victims:
If, for some reason, buyers are still interested in new inner-loop townhomes perched on former industrial sites a few years from now, Mir Azizi will be well situated. The townhome and Herrin Lofts developer is the proud new owner of a now apparently doomed 279,400-square-foot warehouse in the industrial area north of Memorial Park, just west of the occasionally lapping waters of White Oak Bayou.
“He’s thinking perhaps it will be a future town home development, but isn’t deciding right now,” the listing broker told GlobeSt.com.
- First Industrial Sheds 455,707-SF Pair [Globe St.]