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More chipping away on Chippendale, plus an apartment complex and a few more homes go down. See all the addresses below the fold.
Today, trains and automobiles become a flat plain. Plus a roundup of home-crushing excitement. Addresses, as always, are after the jump.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Goodbye, Lu Ann! One restaurant and four houses grace our daily accounting of Houston destruction — after the jump.
Look out! Demolitions are coming soon to your neighborhood! How close did they get today?
Here’s the problem with these sleek houses on full-acre lots in River Oaks: They’re selling for too damn cheap! The gorgeous land at the southern boundary of Memorial Park fronting Buffalo Bayou at 3840 Willowick — hogged by this eighties-modern home designed by New York architects Stonehill and Taylor — got swept up for between $45 and $57 a square foot at the end of August.
At that price, wouldn’t your head be spinning with the themed-towering-mansion possibilities? Bring on the demo and stucco crews!
Well, the stucco and foam cornice pieces will probably take a while, but the big machines with the giant claws are on their way, according to this morning’s demolition report.
Photos, plans, and details of the house-that-got-in-the-way — including some fine examples of how to distract from a River Oaks land sale — after the jump:
Looks like we’ve bagged a couple of big ones! A demolition in the new Broadacres Historic District, plus a River Oaks doozy: Addresses, as usual, are below the fold.
Just a couple of houses in today’s report. Addresses are below the fold.
Two homes fall on Sampson in the Third Ward, a Tanglewood teardown, plus a country-club demo!
All this excitement is in our daily address listing, which you can read after the jump.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Another full-block takedown in the Fifth Ward. Plus a sprinkling of doomed houses, all in today’s report . . . beginning after the jump.
The owners of Otto’s Bar B Que and Hamburgers — a Houston institution since the early days of air conditioning — are retiring, closing up shop, tearing down their building at 5502 Memorial Dr., and putting it and the shopping center they own next door (including Biba’s Greek Pizza) up for sale, reports Allison Wollam in the Houston Business Journal:
Word of the end of Otto’s has already been circulating among customers, many of whom Sofka says are saddened to hear about the impending closure.
“If those people like it so much, where have they been?” she asks. “Why don’t they frequent our restaurant more? We still have our faithful that come in three times a week, but other than that, we’re stressing out each and every day to pay our bills.”
Maybe folks stopped coming by because there’s no chance they’ll run into Marvin Zindler there anymore? Anyway, it’s likely June and Marcus Sofka won’t have to stress about their bills for too much longer:
Real estate sources predict the land will sell for a minimum of $150 per square foot and say the highest and best use for the land would be a high-rise residential tower.
The Otto’ses in Sugar Land and Downtown are franchised, and will not be affected, reports Wollam, who also leaves us with this strange — but quintessentially Houstonish — image:
Another franchised Otto’s is scheduled to open next year in Chase Tower, and Sofka says the barbecue pits behind the original restaurant will be moved to the new Chase Tower location.
- Family sale signals farewell to Otto’s [Houston Business Journal]
- Two Tracts Just off Memorial Drive [Cushman Wakefield]
Photo: Flickr users Bob & Lorraine Kelly
A car-care special in today’s edition of the demo list. See all the addresses . . . after the jump.
It’s a simply smashing day in Houston, wherever you are . . . but exceedingly so at the addresses featured below.
Today, four houses are set to come down, all west of downtown. Addresses are below the fold.
This house in Braeswood looks like a million bucks! And it sold back in August for just over that — $1.1 million — after lingering on the market for just over half a year with an asking price $400K higher.
And it’s featured in today’s Daily Demolition Report!
Below the fold, photos of demolition-ready interiors, plus some quick math.
