Four lorn homes, ready to meet their landfill. See the list after the jump.
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The Doyle Mansion gets its dismissal papers. Plus a Riverside Terrace teardown (you’re looking at it) and nine more homes say goodbye—all in today’s report.
Twenty doomed structures today. Say goodbye to them—after the jump.
Fourteen soon to be forgotten houses have a date with destruction. Our list begins after the jump.
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.
Four businesses and seven residences gained official release from the restricting confines of structural integrity yesterday. What’s going down? Our list of falling buildings is after the jump.
Knocked down in Houston: Six end-of-life houses—after the jump.
Today’s round of demolitions are all residences. Ten doomed houses, 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: