Which Houston building will be the last one standing? Today, Clinton gets thinned out, a Wald site goes bald, and a Humble home folds. Details below.
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Tag: Demolitions
A storage shed crumbles, some apartments in Kashmere Gardens get wrecked, and a home in Parkhurst Estates is removed from the valuable land it sits on. More of the day’s demo fun is hiding in our address list, below.
Nenana. Havel. These are just a few of the sounds you will hear if you venture close enough to today’s demo sites. Your links to maps to the streets where the action is . . . lie below the fold.
Demos in Central City, Oak Forest, Midtown, and more. Make way for . . . building removal! Locations and locations and locations, after the jump.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s one of those days that fills a Houstonian with pride, knowing what this city can accomplish: 11 homes and 6 businesses get their falling papers in today’s report! Addresses and dust aplenty, after the jump:
Score two houses each for the Heights and Settegast! See where the demos are . . . after the jump!
Seven houses and a store fade into history, starting today! Map it all with our handy address list, hiding below the jump.
ExxonMobil marks an X on 17 buildings; no more auto sales for Fabela; another clearance on Washington. Addresses are listed after the jump!
Down go the buildings! Down! Down! Find out where . . . below the fold.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Four homes kick off the week in demolition! Addresses and links to maps are after the jump.
Nothing to see here; move along! All you’ll find after the jump are the addresses of a few unwanted homes. Why bother looking?
Four houses and an apartment complex get mangled for profit in today’s report. Map all the action with our handy address list, below.
A half-dozen houses hit the ground in today’s report. Addresses and links to maps — after the jump.
Is that the sound of Delmar Stadium coming down? The HISD stadium shows up — along with a healthy selection of other buildings — in today’s report, below.
Reluctant rubble maker Cherry Demolition was once exclusively a house-moving company, shuffling quaint little homes in West University. But that was before the late 1980s, when the neighborhood started changing, reports the Houston Business Journal:
Older bungalow-style houses were being torn down and replaced with new multiple-story brick homes.
Instead of watching potential moving business disappear along with the bungalow homes, the Cherry brothers drew up a plan to buy the bungalow-style houses, remove them from the property, find a buyer with a vacant lot, sell the house and then deliver it.
But although this strategy kept the house-moving business going, it was not without problems.
Houses that were too wide, roofs that were too tall or termite damage increased the cost of moving a structure. Three strikes against a house usually meant passing it over. Usually only one in about 20 houses was a suitable candidate for moving and reselling.
Hmmm . . . what to do???
Then inspiration struck. If only one out of 20 homes could be moved, the rest were candidates for demolition, the brothers realized.
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Photo of Montagu Hotel by Flickr user ss.yesterday
