Today’s report: Low volume, but high quality!
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Tag: Demolitions
The city has been having some technical difficulties producing its daily permit report, which is why today’s and yesterday’s demolition reports haven’t shown up here yet. That’s good news, though! Demo contractors ordinarily plagued by crowds of crazed demolition fans will at last get a few days to ply their trade in peace.
Today’s report: a little dusty, a little late . . . and a little small:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Vincent Kickerillo has faith we will be able to rebuild our city after the hurricane! Plenty more demo fun below:
Only one address today. Maybe we can get some volunteers?
The party’s over on the Katy Freeway. And no more Smithwick’s at Mr. C’s. Assorted demos are splayed below:
The good news: The City of Houston is issuing permits again! The bad news: no demo permits in today’s report. Better luck tomorrow!
With the City of Houston code enforcement and permit offices out of commission until Monday — that’s the reason there haven’t been any Daily Demolition Reports here lately — it’s heartening to see that Hurricane Ike hasn’t shut down demolition activity citywide. A camera-phone-wielding bicyclist sends us these photos of continuing non-hurricane destruction from earlier this week at the Highland Village Shopping Center — catty-corner to Cole-Haan, across the street from Crate & Barrel:
There are so many lessons to be learned from destruction! Take the house at 2205 Bartlett St. in Greenbriar, for example. Here’s a photo from earlier this month, as the house was prepared for demolition.
What happened next?
City of Houston offices were closed Friday, in advance of the hurricane.
Which means none of the weekend’s demolition work was officially permitted.
New construction and demolition are the yin and yang of Houston’s real estate landscape. But what if they could be combined?
Neighbors of the properties at 2203, 2205, and 2207 Rutland St. in the Heights — mentioned on Swamplot earlier this week — are collecting signatures requesting that the unfinished new houses be demolished, reports a source. Supporting documentation claiming that “complaints to the City of Houston have resulted in a discouraging cycle of occasional citations, brief minor flurries of activity on the part of the builder, and subsequent inaction” was to have been submitted to city council members and Neighborhood Protection yesterday.
The petition claims that construction began on all three houses in November of 2006. But the house in the middle appears to have a different owner, and Bunny Bungalower Annie Sitton says construction on that property was begun this year.
Below the fold: more pix . . . from before Hurricane Ike!
Only one demolition that’s actually scheduled:
There’s a wave of destruction headed this way. If you find yourself at one of these addresses . . . look out!
Two buildings in the Highland Village Shopping Center come down . . . plus Canada Dry goes flat. Track a few house demos, too — in today’s report: