ABC13’s Miya Shay posts these photos of the impromptu demolition of the Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church at Ruthven and Valentine in the Fourth Ward, which began collapsing on its own Friday.
Read more about: 77019, Churches, Demolitions, Fourth Ward, Hazards, Institutional Buildings
Another day, another set of demos. Today’s list features a downtown lunch favorite, more rubble in Greenview Manor, and some scraps leftover in an historic district. See it all after the jump.
Read more about: 77002, 77007, 77028, 77032, 77087, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions, Fourth Ward, Freedmans Town, Greenview-Manor
Neighborhood obliteration never really took off in the Sixth Ward the way it did in the Fourth. Maybe the experience is something developers can learn from as they set about tackling the Third Ward. In the meantime, a new proposal would seal the Old Sixth Ward Historic District’s fate, extending a six-month moratorium on demolitions.
Here’s the concept: instead of being a plain ol’ Historic District, most of the Sixth Ward neighborhood would be renamed as a Protected Historic District. An entirely new concept.
This would be okay, really. The neighborhood is mostly small old Victorian houses. You don’t get the really spectacular demolitions unless the buildings have some concrete or steel.
Photo: 2015 Lubbock, available at Har.com
Read more about: 77007, Demolitions, Development Restrictions, Fourth Ward, Historic Districts, Neighborhoods: Old Sixth Ward, Old-Sixth-Ward, Third Ward
