Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The end for the garage of a garage; no more Mahoning for a couple of houses; more:
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A mattress takedown in Sharpstown, plus these goners:
PASADENA’S TALLEST ABANDONED BUILDING COULD SOON COME CRASHING DOWN 
“A fitting symbol of Space Age industry and finance” — that’s how highly one First Pasadena State Bank brochure spoke of the firm’s new 12-story headquarters on Southmore Ave. after its construction in 1962. (Other local institutions agreed: for a while, its likeness showed up on Pasadena school report cards, reported Lisa Gray) Now, with the bank and all subsequent tenants long gone, the City of Pasadena is insisting in a lawsuit that the building’s owner tear the place down, or reimburse the city for doing so itself, reports the Chronicle. More than 10 year’s worth of code violations testify to the MacKie & Kamrath–designed structure’s unsoundness, claims the city. And a pile of citations issued over a slightly shorter period adds up to more than $65,000 (which officials seek to supplement with $1,000 per day as long as the building’s still standing in its current state). Inside the 2-story lobby, a fountain surrounded by curved glass walls has run dry. But on the outside, it’s still the tallest vacant building in town. [Houston Chronicle; more info] Photo of 1001 East Southmore Ave.: Patrick Feller [license]
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Begone, vanished spirits, from your former haunts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The replanting of Cottage Grove — and other Houston house-farming hotspots:
In other abandoned Montrose restaurant news: crews have finished smashing up the Burger King on Westheimer a block west of Montrose Blvd., leaving the property in fast food limbo ahead of its planned takeover by Houston’s fourth Shake Shack location. Pictured above is the restaurant’s drive-thru lane minus the accompanying drive-thru infrastructure.
A Cherry Demolition excavator is still picking through scraps left behind from the teardown; they’re now spread out atop the former building’s foundation, visible below:
Nothing-Burger
It’s crunch time at the vacated original Café Ginger in the northern portion of the River Oaks Shopping Center, where a new 30-story apartment tower dubbed The Driscoll is planned to rise up over W. Gray St. Views from beyond the blaze orange barricades scattered around the parking lot since site work began in March show the crushing scene.
Since yesterday, the building’s been spilling its guts out onto the pavement in this particular area:
The End of the Endcap
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s call the end of these things the beginning of their permanence.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is how we carve out more living space.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The select; the elite; the next to be gone:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We remember how they were in their prime. We’re now well past prime time.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Deep Forest cleansing, River Oaks remaking, Auto Service removal, and other urban pastimes.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The vanishing Tanglewood single-story — and other mysterious disappearances of local note:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Macy’s Outlet on the outs; barnstorming in South Houston Gardens; other structural deficits:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A bit of re-burgering at Westheimer and Montrose, a Napoleon defeat, and other Houston ploughing-overs:
