Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A shore loser in Kingwood, a complete automotive failure, and a parade of crushed houses fill out this morning’s report:
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Everything must leave the lot!
The last remaining building associated with Houston’s 1950s-era glam-magnet Shamrock Hotel is slated to be torn down, reports Cynthia Lescalleet in the West U. Examiner. The Shamrock’s former ballroom facility at 2151 W. Holcombe became the Edwin Hornberger Conference Center in 1996, nine years after the Shamrock itself was famously axed.
The Texas Medical Center has more building plans for the site:
TMC will build 250,000 square feet of office space in three floors to be added atop the Bell building, which also houses the existing parking garage, said TMC’s John Kajander. The added space is to support TMC institutions, he said.
The building housing the Hornberger’s foyer and ballroom “is nearing the end of its useful life,†he said, and will be taken down.
A little Hornberger history:
Earlier this year, Buffalo Pharmacy announced it would leave its soon-to-be-demolished digs at Bissonnet and Buffalo Speedway and move inside the new H-E-B under construction just behind the store. In the interim, Buffalo Pharmacy was set to operate out of a trailer on the site.
But those plans have changed: Buffalo Pharmacy will close for good this Saturday, November 8. The pharmacy opening in the trailer 2 days later will be called H-E-B Pharmacy.
The new supermarket, meant to be a cross between a Central Market and a typical H-E-B, is scheduled to open next year. And it’ll have an H-E-B Pharmacy inside.
- Pharmacy moving, but not far [West University Examiner]
Photo of Buffalo Pharmacy: Flickr user Kevin Trotman [license]
The results are in: The day’s Houston dustmakers, all in a list for you!
For election day, a special luxury residential edition of our daily report — as 5 fine homes are selected for demolition:
Inspired by the not-so-unusual tale of the house at 2524 McLendon St. in Brentwood (which was apparently renovated, sold, and then demolished just last month), commenter Jimbo posted this challenge to Swamplot readers — which has so far gone unanswered:
Is there a suitable adjective for the activity of renovating a house to flip only to have the new owner demo it immediately?
An adjective? We’d settle for a noun.
It’s not Sisyphean because I’m sure they made money but there must be some fancy Greek mythology parallel for it.
Yeah, try Greek — or maybe Aztec . . . or some term from the mortuary business, or . . . Ayn Rand?
- Daily Demolition Report: Chantilly Erase [Swamplot]
Photo of 2524 McClendon St.: HAR
Where are those latest demos? We’ll let you know as soon as the list comes in!
In today’s edition, 3 houses give a few hungry excavators something to chew on.
Outside-the-Loop demos only in today’s edition. Spread the joy around!
Where can you go to see the housing collapse, for real? Try these 9 in-town addresses:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s curtains for the old Theatre Suburbia, as an Oak Forest shopping-center demo fest begins! Here’s a roster of participants this time:
Three little houses and that’s it on today’s wreck list: One is brick; another is wood. What’s that house on Rosemont made of?
