Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Who would have thought the old house to have had so much wood in it?
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Go, vanish into air, away!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Where floodwaters, expanding soils, and housing trends lead, excavators will follow:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They cannot take it from us if we willingly give it up.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Some wet, some dried, some going:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Have we truly taken this about as far as we can go?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing houses and grinding out their conclusions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is merciless. You do not look at it – it looks at you and does not forgive.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piles of rubble.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Buildings are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fear not – we will have these flattened and forgotten in no time.
The Southmore bridge — known to get real cozy with floodwaters as they course down 288 — made its last stand this weekend as crews cleared the way for a new, presumably higher roadway that’ll be built in its place. Lanes of 288 — pictured above from the northbound side — shut down to accommodate the demolition. The bridge itself had been closed since earlier this month closed on Friday. Now, thru-traffic is being detoured to the Blodgett and Binz St. bridges across the highway via its north- and southbound feeder roads. The estimated opening date for the new structure: mid-to-late next year.
- Southmore Bridge [Drive288]
Photos: Swamplox inbox (from Southmore); Drive288 (from 288)
High-Speed Demolition
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
The knockdown of Mr. Santos Fashion Design‘s single-story structure at 2150 Westheimer is complete — as is that of a few trees that shaded it. Before the dress design and tailor business relocated last year to a house on Welch St. — a block south of San Felipe — it had been on the less-than-a-quarter-acre corner in Glendower Court for 34 years. (Its former dwelling is pictured above adjacent to construction fencing put up by the neighboring St. Anne Parish — a church-and-school complex that expanded its parking lot 2 years ago in place of a house demolished behind Mr. Santos’s structure in 2013.)
The new owner of the dress shop’s former lot: Franco Valobra of Valobra Master Jewelers, the rock shop located 2 miles to the west in the northern portion of the Highland Village Shopping Center. An entity connected to Valobra bought the Mr. Santos building last year, a few months after the proprietor took off from it.
- Previously on Swamplot: Mr. Santos Is Still Open for Alterations and New Dress Construction, but There’s a New Parking Lot Next Door; Daily Demolition Report: Neither Here Norhill
Photos: Swamplox inbox
Valobra Master Jewelers
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A single excavator is enough to drive away many shadows.
