Two homes, a converted residence at the head of the Shepherd Curve, and a stop along O.S.T. take hits in today’s demo report. Map them all with our handy address list.
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Hospital buildings, homes, and more shine in today’s parade of destruction. The order of demolition is layed out in your free program for the proceedings, after the jump.
Clean sweeps: Six homes in a row get scraped on an East Side street, plus the end of a car wash on Richmond. All the demo fun is wrapped into our daily address listing, which begins after the jump.
Just three piddly demos in today’s report. Hunt them down with our handy address list!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Two homes near IAH get cleared for take-off. Plus, three more houses around town appear on the fall schedule. It’s all in today’s report, after the jump.
Walls crumble on Portwall, piles form on Berry, and houses leave their homes around town. Our daily address list is your guide to all the good old fashioned demo fun!
Southampton and the Heights get a quick trim in today’s report. Addresses are below the fold.
Clearance at Greenspoint Mall! Plus, a demolition catty-corner to the Hoa Binh Center, and evidence of real change . . . all in today’s address list, after the jump.
Wielding a copy of Stephen Fox’s Houston Architectural Guide, transit buff Christof Spieler writes in to report that the vacant and graffiti-laden Hoa Binh Center in Midtown — targeted by Camden Property Trust for a new apartment complex — has an important story behind it. He quotes from Fox’s writeup of the shopping center, which was built in 1923:
What distinguishes this building is that it was the prototype of the 20th century American suburban shopping center: it introduced the concept of off-street parking, toward which the grocery store itself was oriented.
Spieler adds:
In other words, Camden may be about to tear down the world’s first strip mall. Now that’s a historic building.
And it’s certainly worth at least a nice plaque somewhere on those new apartments going up on the site!
But before all you preservationist types get up in arms about the impending demolition of the mother of all strip malls, keep in mind that an equally important part of this structure’s history and legacy will almost certainly be preserved, cherished, and celebrated. Sure, the building will probably end up in a pile of rubble off Loop 610. But all those historic off-street parking spaces? They’ll be moved into a nice new garage at the Camden Travis, where residents of the new apartments and their guests will be able to enjoy them for generations to come.
After the jump: Spieler spills more Hoa Binh history!
Three homes and a car wash get cleaned off the Houston map. Find out where to put the tiny pins this time . . . after the jump.
For years, Camden Property Trust has been talking about a giant mixed-use project the company is planning for the “superblock” bounded by Main, Anita, McGowen, and Travis in Midtown. And the Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reported this weekend that Camden is ready to go ahead with its Midtown development.
Except the new Camden project isn’t on the vacant superblock. And it won’t be mixed use. It’s a four-story, 253-unit, $45 million apartment complex called the Camden Travis, planned for the site of the former Hoa Binh supermarket building, the dilapidated and heavily tagged vaguely-moderne-looking shopping center one block to the west, at 2830 Travis.
- Midtown makeover [Houston Chronicle]
- Camden puts planned deals back on front burner [Houston Business Journal]
- hiatus on hiatus [Give Up]
- And Now, Some Gentle Words of Encouragement for Midtown Redevelopment [Swamplot]
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Houses go down in Garden Oaks, the Fifth Ward, the Heights, and . . . Melrose Place! Maps to starred homes . . . after the jump!
It’s just time for them to go, okay? It’s over.
The city’s latest rejects, below the fold.
A little cleanup work in Midtown and along the Gulf Freeway. Plot the course of destruction . . . with our handy address list!
Down with houses! Up with . . . whatever comes in their place. Our daily address list: below the fold.