Is this lone house all you can cough up? This is like pulling teeth. C’mon, Houston!
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Tag: Demolitions
Whaddya say we lay off the demos, just for a day? Y’all have been working way too hard.
Rest up: Plenty of work to do when you get back into it. There’s still a lot of city left.
That Pizza Hut tower at the corner of Chimney Rock and W. Bellfort loses its toppings. Idylwood stirs. And Tanglewood thins itself out. Read all about it, between the lines of our daily report:
A whole new year of demos. Now we’re finally getting into the swing! Let’s go with these:
Just a single building in today’s report, and it’s not even going away completely. Better step it up if we’re going to make room for those millions of newcomers moving to Houston.
How about starting the day with a little shaving? Here’s Houston’s home technique:
The best evidence we’ll be having a smashing new year: This cleanup list.
Late yesterday a reader wrote in expressing concern about the “very cool, worth saving, worth redoing in an intelligent way” 4-plex at 4311 Bettis Dr., just northeast of the stalled-out High Street project on Westheimer. The Bettis Apartments were designed by Robert Wilson in 1955, and are listed as “Most Endangered Moderns” on the Houston Mod website.
A few hours later, 3 properties with the address of 4211 Bettis showed up as demos in the city permit report. You can see them in this morning’s Daily Demolition Report below. The properties are described as the San Felipe Court Apartments . . . didn’t those go down some time ago?
4211 Bettis and 4311 Bettis must be different properties, right? Except HCAD has no entry for a 4211 Bettis. And 4311 Bettis is listed in the rolls as part of the “Trilogy on Bettis Street.”
Swamplot’s tipster provides this tip sheet about the apartments:
It’s the end-of-the year rush. Hurry to get your buildings in now!
Tenants have already begun moving out of the Wakeforest Apartments just north of 59, reports the Michael Reed in the River Oaks Examiner. The Upper Kirby District TIRZ board voted last week to buy the 101-unit complex, tear it down, and build a new “civic complex” on the property, which sits at the eastern edge of Eastside St.’s Levy Park.
A few farewell views sent in by a reader:
