Tag: Demolitions

06/02/10 6:23am

Daily Demolition Report: Defender Bender

Just a couple couples today. We’ll hit your street some other time.

06/01/10 6:51am

Daily Demolition Report: Cleaners Cleaners

Swamplotâ€™s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday

We’ve tried adding these to our diet. But still, the stomach aches . . .

05/28/10 6:56am

Daily Demolition Report: The Hollow Way

Dust these dumps quickly; then you can skip out for the long weekend:

05/27/10 9:51am

Daily Demolition Report: Chevy Chased and Beaten

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Five houses to munch on. Should tide us over until lunchtime.

05/26/10 6:25am

Daily Demolition Report: Earline Takeoff

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Well, well, well! Just looky what we have here:

05/25/10 6:52am

Daily Demolition Report: Caplin Gone

It’s so much quieter after the weekend’s demos — you can sense the stillness. Except around these sites:

05/24/10 6:07am

Daily Demolition Report: Squeakers

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Swamplotâ€™s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday — or, in this instance, over the weekend.

Did the mayor come through your neighborhood like a bulldozer this weekend? In just under the deadline for Saturday’s extravaganza: even more demolitions, permitted the same day! Here’s a list of those last-minute demos:

05/21/10 11:22pm

Daily Demolition Report: The Big One

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A special Friday evening edition of the (this time Twice) Daily Demolition Report! What’s the occasion? Mayor Parker’s big smash-’em-up extravaganza, scheduled for Saturday. And this hefty list of demo targets (rounding out the others we’ve already reported) just came in this evening:

Attractions

05/21/10 10:01am

Showtime in Houston: How Cherry Demolition Sure Would Like To Smash Up the Astrodome

Demolitions, Historic Preservation, Public Buildings, Quicklink, Reliant Park

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SHOWTIME IN HOUSTON: HOW CHERRY DEMOLITION SURE WOULD LIKE TO SMASH UP THE ASTRODOME The last year and a half has been “bleak” for the local demolition industry, says Cherry Demolition’s Mike Dokell. But he’s eager to get his hands on the big one: “Because the Rodeo/Texans canâ€™t use it, and due to the buildingâ€™s design and current condition, it would be nearly impossible to do anything with the structure. I say wreck it. And, yes, I would want to be involved in the project. Most probably, explosives would be involved in the demolition to some extent. But, there are many features of the structure that would have to be taken down conventionally. The eventual demolition of the Dome would be quite a show, and we at Cherry would love to be part of it.” [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]

77054, Astrodome, Attractions, Demolitions, Historic Preservation, Public Buildings

05/21/10 6:12am

Daily Demolition Report: Ready for D-Day

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Here they are: a whole big bunch of homes ready for the “Mayor’s Demo” — or is it the “Mayor’s D-Day Project”? All shown as listed, below:

05/20/10 6:57am

Daily Demolition Report: Mire on Brackenridge

Five and a half houses are signed up to go down in today’s report. But are they ready?

Read â€™em and sweep.

Apartments

05/19/10 4:51pm

Early Exit: The Fire at the Downtown Y

Demolitions, Downtown, Institutional Buildings, Land Sales

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A reader sends us this view from the scene of the YMCA on Louisiana and Pease Downtown. A fire broke out in a resident’s room on the 9th floor of the 67-year-old building early this afternoon after someone left a lit candle unattended, according to news reports. YMCA officials tell Channel 2 News that 16 residents will need to be relocated as a result of the damages.

Of course, all 135 residents of the YMCA will need to be relocated after the new YMCA down the street at 808 Pease St. (at Milam) opens this October. The YMCA plans to demolish the Louisiana St. building, then sell the vacant 85,000-sq.-ft. property to Chevron, which owns the shiny former Enron building next door. The new Tellepsen Family Downtown YMCA now under construction contains no residences.

Late Update: Our correspondent sends in a later photo from the scene:

77002, Apartments, Demolitions, Downtown, Fires, Institutional Buildings, Land Sales

05/19/10 6:56am

Daily Demolition Report: More Than Fairchild

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What we got crackin’ today? A few surplus machine-shop and apartment buildings and homes:

Bankruptcies

05/18/10 11:01am

Waiting for the Renaissance: What Could $32 Million Buy at Greenspoint Mall?

Greenspoint, Malls, New Construction, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Renovations

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The Triyar Cannon Group has been threatening to give shopworn Greenspoint Mall a $32 million makeover since 2006. Most of what appears to be planned shows up in this knock-’em-down video: a new outdoor plaza at the mall’s east entrance, and a connected 22-story office building off Greenspoint Dr., designed by Ziegler Cooper. Just last week, demolition began on the vacant JCPenney building, site of a proposed Premiere Cinema multiplex that’s supposed to share a new parking garage with the tower. Not in the plans, but already happened anyway: the closing of Sears.

When will the rest of this happen?