Four houses down, but so many more to go. We map Houston’s demolition progress — below the fold.
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School’z out 4EVAH!!! Also, some thrash metal and a band of houses around town. It’s all in Houston’s favorite demo-address roundup, after the jump.
Renovate or demolish? It’s a false choice, really. Now you can do both!
If ever one listing encapsulated the essential paradox at the heart of the Third Ward’s uh . . . “resurgence,” it’s the one just posted for 2103 Berry St.
Contractors are hard at work completely renovating this Third Ward duplex . . . so that you can buy it and tear it down. Then you can start over and build brand-new townhouses! The brand-new listing features the construction-site photo above and the following description:
GREAT DUPLEX UNDER RENOVATIONS LOCATED MINUTES AWAY FROM DOWNTOWN,MIDTOWN, TOYOTA CENTER AND MINUTE MAID PARK. CORNER LOT SURROUNDED BY NEW CONSTRUCTION. PHENOMENAL OPPORTUNITY FOR A DEVELOPER’S OR INVESTOR’S TO BUILD TOWNHOMES.
Who says you can’t have it all?
After the jump: Can’t we just slather the stucco over the exterior brickwork and call it even?
In honor of the birthday holiday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the City of Houston refused to approve any building demolitions yesterday.
Updated with more videos below.
If you didn’t hear about the implosion of that 11-story building Downtown last weekend until after it happened, you weren’t the only one. It’s just that battle-scarred Cherry Demolition was a little gun-shy about publicizing another hotel demo in advance. Fewer spectators means less chance a blurry video or two will turn the company from rubble removers to crime-scene investigators.
Fortunately for readers, nobody informed Swamplot about the media blackout. After the jump, reports, photos, and videos of Sunday’s big bang!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Latest to bite the dust: a movie theater, a McDonald’s, and more. Swamplot lists the addresses . . . after the jump.
Spanning the Loop to bring you the constant variety of destruction: This is Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report.
Have a look at today’s demos . . . after the jump.
Update: Photos and videos of the implosion are here.
Another Houston hotel implosion? So soon?
This one will be downtown, and everyone’s hoping it doesn’t make national news. But that doesn’t mean this weekend’s big bang won’t be another early-morning citywide block party. And so much to talk about since the last one!
Cherry Demolition crews have been chipping away at buildings on the block bounded by Main, Fannin, Rusk, and Walker since October, to make room for a 46-story pipe wrench. And everything is set for Dykon’s implosion of the 11-story Montagu Hotel (originally the Hotel Cotton, built in 1913) at the corner of Main and Rusk at 7 a.m. on Sunday, January 20th.
Streets will be shut down at least a block in each direction. But with the Crowne Plaza final-mystery-guest hullabaloo fresh in everyone’s memory, maybe this time there won’t be so much jockeying for the same “best” camera and video angles. Everyone spread out in a big circle, and send us your unique photos and videos. First person to spot anything fishy on the scene wins a special report on Inside Edition!
- MainPlace to be completed in 2010 [HAIF]
- Daily Demolition Report: Three Buildings That Will Go Down in History [Swamplot]
- Why It Might Be a While Before Houston Implodes Another Building [Swamplot]
- Crowne Plaza Demolition Party Report: All Your Pics and Videos [Swamplot]
- Remaking Blow-Up, or Was Everybody Out When the Crowne Went Down? [Swamplot]
- MainPlace: Hines’s 46-Story Green Pipe-Wrench Dream [Swamplot]
Photo of Hotel Montagu: Jeremey Barrett
Get your hot hot demolitions right here! Demo crews, fire away at the addresses listed below the fold.
Only four houses today. Kind of a dull pace for January, when there are still thousands to go this year. Step it up!
This time, just a few addresses are hiding below the fold.
Goodbyes to Nuevo Leon, Darling, and Edith in today’s report. Find out where the demos — are after the jump.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The latest in the Houston demo world: Shady Acres blows a fuse, plus Neighborhood Protection gets in on the acts. Addresses, as always, are after the jump!
A reader writes in to report that a house discussed recently on Swamplot had also been featured in Architectural Digest last October. And so it had! But really, they called it “Trapezoidal Transcendence”?? Whatever. Swamplot had the guts to call it what it really was: A River Oaks teardown.
Oh, well — there’s no accounting for taste. Unless, of course, you consider demolition a form of judgment:
By the way, that amazing modern house in the Tall Timbers section of River Oaks is definitely toast.
In this case, apparently, the decision of that judge was final.
- River Oaks Land Rush: $2+ Million Memorial Park and Bayou Frontage with Modern Obstacle [Swamplot]
- Estates for Sale [Architectural Digest]
A detailing station is washed away, plus a little dead weight gets knocked off at Ima Hogg’s place. Demo addresses and intrigue await — after the jump!
When will we be rid, finally, of all these old buildings? Map the day’s progress after the jump.
