Hmmm . . . Wasn’t there some kind of fancy estate designed by some feller named John Staub for sale on Turkey Trail just a short while ago?
Well, it looks like the land is still available!
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Tag: Demolitions
Take them down! But save the land, we’ll need that. And note their addresses, too . . .
Another day, another demo . . . or 9. Use our handy daily address list to count and point!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Bricks stripped, the last house standing in the way of Post Properties’ Courtyard on Richmond gets its sign-off. Plus: a Memorial Bend minus! Details after the jump.
The great Harrisburg demo-and-new-construction party begins! Addresses and more, after the jump.
Temporary building trouble on Hazard, a high-stakes takedown on Genoa Red Bluff, and a sprinkling of demo debris around town: It’s all in today’s address list, below.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In today’s edition: revenge of the stuffed animal heads; plus a San Felipe St. massacre. Coordinates and tantalizing details can be found in our demo address list, below.
Some tired buildings go down in today’s report. Coordinates and vague descriptions are yours, after the jump.
A late permit for a gas station on Kirby, plus some hard knocks on Knox. Demos galore in today’s list, below.
In case it hadn’t already become obvious from watching the construction, that uh . . . “stealth” four-level parking garage in back is the real game-changer for the River Oaks Shopping Center.
Clearly, what’s unfolding is a strategy even more ingenious than anyone could have imagined. With a new monster garage looming behind the next targeted would-be landmark, Weingarten will soon have people begging it to rip down more of the north side of the center and build something taller, just to screen those four stories of cars from West Gray. Meanwhile, focusing attention on the complaints of a few pesky neighbors in back is a classic outrage-bait move. Throw in a little hush money to make sure those protests aren’t too loud, but then make sure news of the offer gets leaked, so the decoy works. Send in the demo crews, redevelop, and repeat!
The site plan above comes from a Weingarten variance request that will go before the Planning Commission on Thursday. The city’s landscape ordinance apparently requires the new development to switch out some of those existing sickly-but-iconic palm trees for live oaks. Naturally, Weingarten wants to save the palms!
- Offer made for silence over River Oaks shopping center [River Oaks Examiner]
- Weingarten Realty Investors Letter to Brentwood Residents (PDF) [River Oaks Examiner]
- New River Oaks Shopping Center: a hazy deal? [Houstonist]
- How To Demolish Houston Landmarks [Swamplot]
River Oaks Shopping Center landscape plan: Heights Venture Architects, via Houston Planning Commission
Stuck in traffic on I-10 near the Beltway 8 interchange, Lou Minatti spots this construction leftover, stranded on an old onramp that’s already being torn down at both ends.
After the jump: the long view.
In today’s demo news: a church scrubs three structures; plus a little bit of house clearing. Addresses are listed below.
ABC13’s Miya Shay posts these photos of the impromptu demolition of the Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church at Ruthven and Valentine in the Fourth Ward, which began collapsing on its own Friday.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Landfills soon to be fed with four houses and a bank. Our maps to the growing fields are below the jump.
