A little knock-down back of the convention center, that sort of thing.
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Tag: Demolitions
IS TEXAS A&M READY TO KNOCK DOWN KYLE FIELD, TOO? 
A source tells the Texas Monthly‘s Paul Burka that Texas A&M has plans to jettison more than just its affiliation with the Big 12 in its quest to join the NCAA’s Southeastern Conference. The university has plans to tear down Kyle Field on the A&M campus in College Station and rebuild it “as a modern stadium, with a seating capacity of 90,000-plus. The only part of the current stadium that will be retained is the north end zone.” The Zone is the most recent part of the 1927 football field; it opened in 1999. [BurkaBlog] Photo: Coaches Hot Seat
A former Riviana Foods warehouse gets shorn to make way for a drive-thru near Sawyer Heights. Plus a couple more downed houses:
THE COMING LOCAL HP IMPLOSION 
Two former Hewlett-Packard office buildings from the original Compaq World Headquarters campus at the corner of Hwy. 249 and Louetta will be demolished in a “controlled demolition” on September 18th. The 2 buildings, a 1,200-car parking garage, and a central chiller plant were purchased for $12.6 million by the Lone Star College System last year, as an extension to the 8 buildings the former North Harris Montgomery Community College System bought a year earlier to create its new University Park campus. But it’s clear the college was mostly interested in the parking spaces that came with the latest purchase. According to the terms of the sale, HP itself will manage the implosion of the 2 buildings, before turning over the resulting “usable green space” to the school. LSCS facilities guy Jimmy Martin explains the reasoning: “The cost to properly maintain the buildings in a ‘mothball’ state until they might have been needed in the future is $1.25 million annually. It was more cost-effective to have the contractor tear the buildings down as part of the purchase agreement.” [Champions Sun; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Geoff Sloan [license]
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here we go again with the goners:
Lather up for a little cleanup and spacemaking, yo.
Thanks to some fun-loving neighbors in the Isabella Court apartments just across the street, we have this brief video documenting the wild final moments of the former Simpson Galleries building at the corner of Main and Isabella in Midtown. The building burned Friday night; the Spanish Colonial storefront structure facing onto the light-rail line has been vacant since the Simpson Galleries moved to a new location near Fountainview and Westpark in 2007. Demolition crews knocked down the remaining structure the next morning.
- Video of Teardown of Simpson Galleries After Fire Friday Night, Fire Ravages Simpson Galleries, and
Fire Strikes Third Antique Store This Year [Hair Balls] - Fire destroys vacant building in Midtown [abc13]
Video: Eleanor Williams/Jeff Balke
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The Third Ward: now with fewer buildings.
First decent summer crop in a little while. How do you like these tomatoes? Crushed, or straight canned?
Clearing the way for apartments on Washington Ave — and other Houstonish ventures:
You wouldn’t have wanted to see them anyway.