Some light urban removal to start out your day:
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Taking a Hempstead Rd. building for granite — and other area removals.
Get ’em here for a self-guided tour: Your map to the scars homes:
What’s that? The metal scrap heap formerly known as the Tavern on Gray (and before that, Blue Agave and several other temporary food-and-drink installations). Coming next to the corner of West Gray and Waugh: this 5-story Hanover West Gray apartment complex. The Tavern on Gray is now the Tavern on Milam, at 3017 Milam in Midtown.
More reader pics of the North Montrose scene the bar left behind, from over the weekend and early this week:
The folks charged with blowing up old buildings at UT’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have set a January 8th date for the big dynamite surgical event meant to knock down what’s left of the institution’s Houston Main Building. The hulking 18-story tower at 1100 Holcombe Blvd. was built in 1952 for Prudential Life Insurance as part of Houston’s first-ever suburban office campus, designed by architect Kenneth Franzheim. The Med Center institution bought the building in 1975, but began the long demo process early this year.
A brief guide to a few little wood-and-drywall tangles about town. Find them here:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just one permit came through on Veterans Day. Here it is:
Making a lot of way for that new apartment building at West Gray and Waugh. And . . . more:
It is 3 buildings when I get there that are gone: On Wheeler, Shepherd, and the — what’s the third one there? Let’s see:
These houses should stack nicely.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
For the same price today: more than Double demo.
If any ghosts of Alabama Theater moviegoers were still intent on haunting the spaces once occupied by their old seats, they’d be buried in sand by now. A Swamplot reader and theater buff shows us the current state of the building’s innards — as seen yesterday from strategic views through the front and rear glass doors. On its way to a new level and Trader Joe’s-worthy surface, the auditorium’s basement and raked floor have been transformed into what now appears to be the city’s largest indoor sandbox. (From the photos, it looks like only a single motorized sand toy gets to play in it, though.)
A new, permanent concrete floor ordered by the owners of the landmarked 1939 Art Deco building, Weingarten Realty, will replace the removable raised-floor system put in place in the early 1980s, when the theater at 2922 S. Shepherd Dr. was transformed into the Alabama Bookstop bookstore.
