It’s the end-of-year rush. Don’t get left behind! Get yer demo permits now.
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The demos return with a sextuple knockdown, including an odd little mod on Mignon and an old 1928ish number hogging too much land in the Museum District.
Demo fans, your late Christmas gifts will arrive . . . tomorrow. The long holiday weekend for city employees — and doomed structures — only ended today.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
’Twas the night before Christmas, and if you had a teardown house, not a demo permit was stirring, because city offices were closed. Try again today, and we’ll list it tomorrow.
Set with care under a few trees in the nick of time: a few hot items, including a mid-century mod in River Oaks and a colonial revival from 1928 taking up 2 lots in Boulevard Oaks. Plus, a kickoff for Kickerillo:
ALL THEY WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS WAS THE SKYLANE WEST 
Here’s a heartwarming holiday story. Embarrassed by media reports that all residents of the Skylane West apartments on I-10 were being kicked out of their homes with only 10 days’ notice just days before Christmas, the property’s new owners have given tenants, many of whom pay weekly, a wonderful Christmas present: Now they’ll be kicked out of their homes just days before New Year’s. Sonia Azad reports the new owners of the property just across the Beltway from CityCentre is Houston Garden Centers, which operates a nursery next door to the ratty complex and plans to tear it down. In the holiday spirit, the company “extended family leases through December 29 and gave them each $500 Walmart gift certificates. In an email, the new owner says, ‘We had no idea that there were children living here.'” [abc13] Image: 39Online
Pounding the pavement to bring you Houston’s best pavement pounders. And here they are:
Can’t we use wit as a pitchfork and drive these brutes off?
COMMENT OF THE DAY: THE SOUND OF SUGAR SHAKING OUT OF SUGAR LAND “I’m going to assume that the building is no longer since at 7:01am [on Sunday] I heard a rather low but loud boom followed by my desk shaking a little. I’m about 10 miles away as well.” [geequeue, commenting on Sugar Land Sugar Box Implosions Back on for This Sunday]
It took several tries and a bit of a scare to take down the second building from the former Imperial Sugar factory and refinery off Highway 90A in Sugar Land Sunday. As shown in more than a dozen YouTube videos, the metal bin building collapsed after the first blasts of dynamite shortly after 7 am, as planned. But the metal furnace house, directly adjacent to the brick char house, didn’t budge; getting it out of there turned out to be a little trickier. A second series of blasts (shown in the video above), set around 7:45, produced . . . well, not much. Then, maybe 40 minutes later, after most of the crowds had left and workers had gone inside the building to try to figure out what was wrong, and when the remaining onlookers least expected it, there was this frightening scene:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Another drop from the First Missionary Baptist Church in Sunnyside is jettisoned, along with some other stuff and a few other things, too.
Someday you’re going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn’t work. And when you do, don’t overlook those lovely destructibles. You’ll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile.
The controlled demolitions of 2 metal buildings once part of the Imperial Sugar Refinery off Highway 90A in Sugar Land, originally scheduled for December 12th, have been rescheduled for this weekend. If all goes according to plan, after the dynamite blasts on Sunday morning the furnace house and bin building will fall away from the brick char house, which Johnson Development Corp. plans to save and use as a centerpiece for the new 700-acre historic-themed development it plans to build on the site, celebrating the rich but recently decimated history of the local sugar-refining business. The company plans to call the development “Imperial.” With or without the implosion, the demolition of Sugar Land’s iconic buildings has already been nominated this year for a Swamplot Award for Houston Real Estate, in the Best Teardown category.
The viewing area will be east of Main St. and north of Hwy. 90A — which will be closed down. There will be parking available at Lakeview Elementary, 314 Lakeview Dr., and Sugar Land Middle School, 321 Seventh St. Demo time is scheduled for 7 am.
- The Blast is Back On at Imperial: Two Buildings To Be Imploded Dec. 19 [Fort Bend Now]
- Previously on Swamplot: The New Sugar Land: More Land, Less Sugar
Photo: Flickr user mscottk
I know what you’re thinking: that your days of finding a Bacon ’n Beef Burger and Beef Lo Mein on the same block are over.