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January 31, 2008 – 5:38 pm
There’s just too much to take in from the latest rambling, illustrated walking tour by David Beebe and John Nova Lomax, narrated in harmony from their two separate corners of the Texan blogosphere. The pair’s latest venture — appropriately enough — runs along Long Point, through the heart of Spring Branch:
. . . primarily Long Point is a binary street combining Mexico and Korea. In contrast to the multi-ethnic riot that is Bissonnet, or the Pan-Asian explosion that is Bellaire, Long Point is binary. Some businesses fuse into MexiKorea. The Koryo Bakery, right next door to the only Korean bookstore in Houston, touts its pan dulce y pastels, for example, and it seems that many of the Korean-owned businesses aim at Spanish-speakers more than Anglos. (Someone should open a restaurant out here called Jose Cho’s TaKorea.)
The camera-and-tequila-toting duo guide us through a shady thrift-store nirvana they declare to be drab but safe, pointing out salient features along the way: cans of silkworm pupae in a former Kroger turned Korean supermarket, and the historic Hillendahl Cemetery (pictured above) carved out of one corner of a Bridgestone tire barn parking lot.
After the jump, more Spring Branch walking-tour highlights!
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Read more about: 77043, 77055, 77080, Houston History, Koreatown, Long-Point, Pedestrians, Spring-Branch, Streets, Tours
September 11, 2007 – 8:02 am
A whole lotta demo going on: A county outpost downtown, more industrial buildings along Studemont, plenty of houses, and more. Our daily list of addresses begins after the jump.
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Read more about: 77002, 77004, 77007, 77011, 77018, 77023, 77025, 77026, 77027, 77028, 77056, 77079, 77080, 77098, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
Today’s round of demolitions are all residences. Ten doomed houses, after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77018, 77024, 77025, 77030, 77045, 77080, 77081, 77096, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
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:
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Read more about: 77008, 77018, 77075, 77080, 77081, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
