Bagel addict Charles Kuffner reports that the famed Hot Bagel Shop on Shepherd will be moving across and down the street in the fall, into this expanded strip center now under construction on Shepherd just north of Fairview. The new strip center has already swallowed the Houston Shoe Hospital location next door.
The Hot Bagel Shop’s current building — already bleeding tenants — will be torn down, Kuffner reports.
Photo: Charles Kuffner
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Two houses fall. Life goes on. You look at the addresses below.
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Making room for a new HEB across and down the street from Kroger, on Buffalo Speedway at Bissonnet. Plus: 3 houses! Details below:
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday. Today’s report covers permits granted last Thursday, before the July 4 holiday.
Demo begins at the shopping center on the northeast corner of Bissonnet and Buffalo Speedway. But it’s probably a whole lot less than you’re thinking. Details below.
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Four buildings gonna miss the fireworks. See where they are — before they aren’t — below:
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Fourteen newly demolished homes make their brief debut in today’s report, including a few refined ones in Manchester. The list of disappearances appears below.
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The 10-story brick YMCA on Louisiana St., which has been taking up valuable space Downtown for more than 65 years, will at last be torn down, reports Nancy Sarnoff in today’s Chronicle. The Y will move to a new glass-and-brick building now being designed by Kirksey — apparently intended for the nearby block bounded by Travis, Milam, Pease, and Jefferson.
The best part of the story? The Y is being very polite about the whole thing. Having determined that its own building is not worth the $25 million a report determined would be necessary for repairs, the organization will go out of its way to demolish the structure itself, so no future buyer will have to be burdened with similar defensive and wasteful studies — or cleanup. And that future buyer has already been determined: Chevron, which already owns the former Enron building next door, says it has no current plans for the new 85,000-sq.-ft. vacant lot it is purchasing.
At 100,000 square feet, the new YMCA building will be less than half the size of the current facility, but will come with 250 parking spaces. And it will be rated LEED-Silver, which means its construction and operation will conserve energy and resources, unlike the wasteful current building, which was designed by architect Kenneth Franzheim in 1941.
In addition to continuing its mentoring, educational and other life-skill programs, the new facility will include a teen center, child watch area and women’s wellness center, as well as racquetball courts, a basketball gym, swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness equipment, a chapel, meeting space and a food vendor.
Not included in the new structure: replacements for the 132 “short-term” residential units in the current building.
Below: A photo that illustrates the story!
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School buildings, liquor stores, homes, motels . . . there’s a cornucopia of demolition delights in today’s report! Plot the path of destruction with our handy address list.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Three deserving demo targets get what’s coming to them. Fair warnings and addresses are below:
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The end of the Trinity steel plant in the Heights headlines today’s extremely short report. Just two addresses, below:
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Six condo buildings and 6 homes go down in today’s report. Map them all with our handy address list!
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Ready to gawk at today’s list of goners? See below:
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There’s a fair amount of progress to report in Houston’s ongoing cleanup project today. See where the buildings ain’t — or ain’t for much longer — below:
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just a taste of destruction finds its way into today’s report. Stick around and there’ll be more!
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Today: A disturbance in Peaceful Valley. Plus some Montrose housecleaning! Details below.
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