Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In today’s edition: The fall of the Ben Milam Hotel — and so much more.
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Tag: Demolitions
Gotta let ’em down gently:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Go down, Moses. And do a little excavating for Exxon.
And then we load it into a truck and haul it away. Time to go block by block now. Getting down to the wires.
COMMENT OF THE DAY: YEP, THIS IS AN $8.5 MILLION RIVER OAKS TEARDOWN 
“This house will (sadly) be demolished. It was designed by Harvin Moore in 1940 for Mr. and Mrs. Sydnor Oden. The Odens had returned to Houston from living in Italy, and they wanted a house that reflected Italian architecture. I am thinking that a tear-down trend is on the rise.” [no history remains, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Prologis Is Past Us] Photo of 3640 Willowick Rd.: HAR
Clearing out Bissonnet for Hanover’s West University apartments, and other rumblings on the ground:
A parking garage is planned on Westpark just west of Kirby Dr., to serve the Goode Company Taqueria and Goode Company Seafood restaurants that sandwich it. The new garage will replace the stylin’ 1966 glazed-brick-front Elgin Butler Brick Co. office building and adjacent warehouse that have served as Goode Company’s offices and commissary since 1988. Together, the modern buildings measure more than 14,000 sq. ft.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fortunately, you’ll have saved plenty of room for dessert:
Photographer Karen Dressel was on hand at lunchtime today to document the final few bites of the excavator demolishing the last of the 3 former Ruggles Grill buildings at 903 Westheimer, just east of Montrose. Two adjacent buildings, at 817 and 907 Westheimer, were torn down earlier this month; Cherry Demolition’s excavator worked up an appetite waiting on-site for the last demo permit to come through. That happened yesterday, and the meal began shortly after breakfast this morning:
