COMMENT OF THE DAY: SPECULATIVE DEMOLITION FOR FUN AND PROFIT “I don’t see how scraping an income-producing property to make it look better for potential buyers makes economic sense, either. Can’t buyers just imagine what the property would look like without the apartments there?” [RWB, commenting on Cleaning Up After the Westheimer Park Apartments]
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Fenced and forlorn, the Wilshire Village Apartments at West Alabama and Dunlavy are ready for the wrecking. But . . . not yet. Swamplot reader Robert Boyd sends a few pics of the lonely scene from this weekend:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A couple of weekend knockdowns, but we’re just warming up:
CLEANING UP AFTER THE WESTHEIMER PARK APARTMENTS “Austin-based Falcon Southwest expects the demolition to be complete by July on the 185-unit complex at 9235 Westheimer, between Fondren and Gessner. Phil Capron, president of Falcon Southwest, says the property was under contract late last year to an apartment developer who wanted to build a five-story complex on the 4.8-acre site. The developer, whom he won’t name, could not get financing because of market conditions. Falcon Southwest will plant grass on the site before relisting it because “it will show better totally clean,†Capron says. He hopes to sell the tract for $30 to $35 per square foot, which would put the price between $6.3 million and $7.4 million. Falcon Southwest also owns the next door Westheimer Terrace Apartments, which are not for sale now, but Capron says will be at some time in the future.” [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
Cleaning up that Gallery Furniture warehouse building . . . and more! All in a day’s report:
Houston needs more room! That’s why we’re making it here, every day:
As noted in today’s Daily Demolition Report below, 20 structures of the Wilshire Village garden apartments at the corner of Alabama and Dunlavy received demolition permits yesterday.
Aren’t there only 17 buildings in the complex? Maybe everyone’s just trying to be extra sure to get them all.
If you’re coming late to this story — or if you just feel the need to relive all the excitement, mystery, and wackiness surrounding the long decline, eventual abandonment, and destruction of a 69-year-old Montrose icon — you can read all of Swamplot’s posts on the topic here. For full effect, start at the earliest story, at the bottom of the last page, and work your way backwards. And don’t miss the many entertaining and informative comments contributed by Swamplot readers along the way.
- Daily Demolition Report: The One with Wilshire Village in It [Swamplot]
- Wilshire Village coverage [Swamplot]
Photo of Wilshire Village Apartments, 1701 W. Alabama St.: Jim Parsons, from GHPA’s Houston Deco
At the top of today’s report: 20 separate permits for the demolition of the Wilshire Village Apartments, on the corner of Dunlavy and Alabama.
More buildings reported missing! No need to panic, though. You can still find them here:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In this episode: flipping the bird out 290 way.
What’s on the chopping block today? Just these homes:
The demos are all over the chess board in today’s report. Come back tomorrow for even more!
Ah, fresh demo in the morning. Pinpoint it here:
COMMENT OF THE DAY: WHICH WILL ROLL FIRST? “Speaking of demolition, the Chicken ‘n’ Egg Roll building is still standing. On the day of the supposed demo, there was a little Bobcat or mini-dozer in the parking lot. A couple days later I noticed a CoH red tag in the window. But the building is still there. Wilshire Village is still standing, too, for the most part. The windows are gone, gaping, and empty, meaning that the interiors have been exposed to the weather (such as it is these days). Some of the buildings have been tagged. The complex used to just look old, but inhabited. Now it looks vacant and sad, very sad.” [GoogleMaster, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Meat Beater]