Let’s kick the weekend off in style, with this fine crop of crushables:
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Tag: Demolitions
Hmmmm. Something sure looks funny about the demo permit taken out by HHN Homes and listed below for the city’s code enforcement and plan review offices at 3300 Main St. Maybe the address is just a stand-in for next week’s mystery-site Extreme Makeover: Home Edition demo and rebuild. Ya think?
Three little houses, not in a row:
COMMENT OF THE DAY: ROOM TO GROW IN THE HEIGHTS “Driving past the site on 25th St over the weekend, it looks like the entire block (bounded by 24th, 25th, Ashland and Rutland) has been vacated. Platted at 33-ft frontage, this would mean space for about 40 new home single family residences. There also appears to be demo activity on the north side of 25th street on the same block. Add this to the warehouses on the 500 block of W 22nd and 23rd (part of the Sullivan Bros. project) and there’s probably potential for 60 new houses in a pretty small area. The price points on similar houses has been $450 to $550k, which means about $30M total. I’m not sure how quickly this area can absorb that much supply.” [Angostura, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Do Adair]
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah:
Coral Peden Cather Branum. And the rest of them:
Today in Houston demolition: We get a few industrial sites and homes under our belts, into our landfills.
Readers in Idylwood have been watching Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report for the appearance of this house at 1954 North MacGregor Way, as it wraps around to Sylvan Rd. in their neighborhood. A local resident tells us the 1950 home will be the 10th Hurricane Ike-flooded house bought up by FEMA and torn down. (Other homeowners on the same street have turned down similar early-retirement deals for their properties, claims the resident.) But focusing on that singular pre-storm flooding event in 2008 only doesn’t do justice to this home’s long history of seaworthiness: Our source says this house had 4 feet of water in it on at least 2 occasions, along with several less dramatic Brays Bayou baptisms. Water from the bayou came back to play in the street in front of the house just 2 Fridays ago.
Idylwood scored 3 FEMA buyouts in the wake of Tropical Storm Allison, in 2001.
- Previously on Swamplot: From Show House to Wet House to No House: Saying Goodbye the MacGregor Way
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Oh, it’s all going down. All of it. Well, at least these places they told us about:
One step forward, three steps back. When are we gonna make some real progress in demolishing this city?
Gotta get out of this rat race. Is somebody spittin’ them out faster than we can knock ’em down?
Just a few morning exercises to keep the equipment in shape, really. When’s the big stuff coming down?