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Swamplot Archives by Tag: Demolitions
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Pierced
October 7, 2008 – 10:17 am
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Cannon Job
October 6, 2008 – 2:54 pm
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A blast as always, but just one house:
Friday, October 3, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Oriole Flight
October 3, 2008 – 11:28 am
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Gummed Up
October 2, 2008 – 11:09 am
The city has been having some technical difficulties producing its daily permit report, which is why today’s and yesterday’s demolition reports haven’t shown up here yet. That’s good news, though! Demo contractors ordinarily plagued by crowds of crazed demolition fans will at last get a few days to ply their trade in peace.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Garage Only
September 30, 2008 – 6:03 pm
Today’s report: a little dusty, a little late . . . and a little small:
Monday, September 29, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Demo Prospect
September 29, 2008 – 10:54 am
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Vincent Kickerillo has faith we will be able to rebuild our city after the hurricane! Plenty more demo fun below:
Friday, September 26, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Troy Story
September 26, 2008 – 11:51 am
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: General Welding Won’t Work Here
September 25, 2008 – 11:51 am
Only one address today. Maybe we can get some volunteers?
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Oxford Trio
September 24, 2008 – 12:40 pm
The party’s over on the Katy Freeway. And no more Smithwick’s at Mr. C’s. Assorted demos are splayed below:
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: False Restart
September 23, 2008 – 8:14 am
The good news: The City of Houston is issuing permits again! The bad news: no demo permits in today’s report. Better luck tomorrow!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Highland Village Won’t Let a Hurricane Get in the Way of Destruction
September 19, 2008 – 5:16 pm
With the City of Houston code enforcement and permit offices out of commission until Monday — that’s the reason there haven’t been any Daily Demolition Reports here lately — it’s heartening to see that Hurricane Ike hasn’t shut down demolition activity citywide. A camera-phone-wielding bicyclist sends us these photos of continuing non-hurricane destruction from earlier this week at the Highland Village Shopping Center — catty-corner to Cole-Haan, across the street from Crate & Barrel:
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
How Demolition Saves Houses
September 17, 2008 – 3:00 pm
There are so many lessons to be learned from destruction! Take the house at 2205 Bartlett St. in Greenbriar, for example. Here’s a photo from earlier this month, as the house was prepared for demolition.
What happened next?
Monday, September 15, 2008
Daily Demolition Report: Ike’s Turn
September 15, 2008 – 6:09 am
City of Houston offices were closed Friday, in advance of the hurricane.
Which means none of the weekend’s demolition work was officially permitted.
Friday, September 12, 2008
How To Demolish New Construction Without Using a Hurricane
September 12, 2008 – 10:30 am
New construction and demolition are the yin and yang of Houston’s real estate landscape. But what if they could be combined?
Neighbors of the properties at 2203, 2205, and 2207 Rutland St. in the Heights — mentioned on Swamplot earlier this week — are collecting signatures requesting that the unfinished new houses be demolished, reports a source. Supporting documentation claiming that “complaints to the City of Houston have resulted in a discouraging cycle of occasional citations, brief minor flurries of activity on the part of the builder, and subsequent inaction” was to have been submitted to city council members and Neighborhood Protection yesterday.
The petition claims that construction began on all three houses in November of 2006. But the house in the middle appears to have a different owner, and Bunny Bungalower Annie Sitton says construction on that property was begun this year.
Below the fold: more pix . . . from before Hurricane Ike!
Daily Demolition Report: Garage Fail
September 12, 2008 – 9:22 am
Only one demolition that’s actually scheduled:
