COMMENT OF THE DAY: REPORTS OF THE DEMOLITION OF 946 ARLINGTON HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED 
“7677 Home IS remodeling and enlarging this home. The demo permit is for the awkward addition on the back of the home and some of the existing structure to start the remodeling process. The property is under contract and the plans show that most of the existing structure will remain.” [Heights Realtor, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Truck Tired]
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Tag: Demolitions
Traveling far and wide, to bring you only the best in demolition:
With demos picking up the pace, we just might get everything cleared by the deadline! Here’s some recent progress:
See a Radio removal, a Laguna lacuna, a Huge Oak knockdown, and a new gap across from the bayou in Idylwood.
It’s all in the day’s report:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just a couple of holiday casualties. Find them here:
Some news from the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance:
The congregation of Immanuel Lutheran Church has voted to delay until spring 2010 the proposed demolition of its Gothic Revival sanctuary on East 15th Street at Cortlandt in the Heights East Historic District.
In late October, the city Archeological and Historic Commission voted to deny the church a “certificate of appropriateness” for the demo, which meant the church would have had to wait a full 90 days anyway — until late January of next year — to tear down its vacant 1932 brick building.
- Historic Heights church faces demolition [GHPA]
- Can This Lutheran Church Be Saved? [Swamplot]
Photo: Heights Blog
We promise to have these out of your way quickly. Sorry they have been obstacles for so long:
What kind of structure do you like best? There’s a little bit of something for everyone in today’s doomed-building roundup!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Good morning, Houston! Here’s your daily rubble:
What we’re tearing down now:
More houses give up their ghosts. Track them here:
Now that a suspect for at least one of the recent Heights-area arsons is in custody, blogger Fred Eats Houston feels a bit more comfortable sharing his photos of some local burn victims.
There have been 18 “suspicious” fires in the Heights area since mid-August. Here are 2 views of a playhouse on Ashland St., part of one of the first structures to burn:
COMMENT OF THE DAY: DEMO ADDICTS “I read the demolition report nearly every day, hoping to see our neighborhood’s crack houses on the list; but way too often I see gorgeous houses like the one here being wasted instead. Depressing.” [Jen Mathis, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Herod’s Fall]
