REGISTERED AGENTS FOR CONDOS A bill recently passed by the Texas Legislature — inspired by problems encountered in contacting the 150 separate owners of Candlelight Trails in northwest Houston — would make it a whole lot easier for the city to demolish decrepit condo complexes. “The bill by Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, applies only to Houston. It requires every condo development to maintain a registered agent to accept service of legal papers; if any development fails to do so, the Texas secretary of state automatically becomes the agent. The law will take effect Sept. 1 if Gov. Rick Perry signs it or allows it to become law without his signature. Perry will review the measure carefully before deciding, spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said. Current law requires each owner to be served either in person or through a legal notice in a newspaper. Defendants served through publication have two years to file a motion for a new trial. ‘It is extremely time-consuming, expensive and allows the substandard and often dangerous conditions to continue while the city struggles to obtain personal service on each owner,’ Ann Travis, Mayor Bill White’s governmental affairs director, said in a background document explaining the bill.” [Houston Chronicle]
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Tag: Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What’s going away in today’s report? Let’s see here now:
Yes, the Young & Restless. And so much more. This is quite a summer demo run we’re having. Will we make it to the finish?
A reader who more than a week earlier “couldn’t help but think that the building might be one of the few acceptable sites for the relocation of Las Alamedas,” sends in this photographic evidence that the building that used to contain the Luisito’s Cocina Cantina on the North Loop at T.C. Jester will no longer be useful for that purpose. And the reader provides the score:
Large stucco clad hacienda buildings – 0, Empty Piles of Rubble – 1
- Daily Demolition Report: Demo Fields [Swamplot]
- Where the Freeway Met the Bayou: The Last Days of Las Alamedas [Swamplot]
Photo of former Luisito’s Cocina Cantina, 2510 North Loop West: Swamplot inbox
Be patient. There’s more than enough demo to go around in today’s report. One at a time, please:
A Swamplot correspondent, concerned that readers of this site
so often have “before” and “after” photos, but rarely a “during”
sends in these action shots from this morning, showing the demolition-in-progress of the University of St. Thomas’s Augustine Living-Learning Community at 4119 Graustark.
UST’s news department reports that the building’s destruction will at last allow the liberation of the programs formerly sequestered within:
. . . the heart of the Living-Learning Community, an intensive experience in the integration of faith, academics and life, will continue to beat in a program bearing a new name – Augustine-Without-Walls.
“The name signifies more than the removal of the residence’s brick exterior: the program will now be open to all UST students who want to share in Augustine events, which focus on integrating academic learning with faith convictions and real everyday life,†said Sister Paula Jean Miller, FSE, Augustine-Without-Walls Program director.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s demo time again! Gather ’round for the reading of the addresses, below:
Where will they put it all?
Attack of the building munchers! But by directing them to these decoys, humble permit clerk Peter Parker manages to spare much of the city:
A bit of building clearance along the North Loop. Plus: The Way of All Houses. Read the tea leaves in our daily report:
Bitter ends for Luisito’s, at the North Loop and T.C. Jester, plus a gallery of other colorful buildings. More coordinates of destruction exposed in our daily list:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We’re back at it with the crushing blows! Watch for them to land here:
