An entire block goes down in the Fifth Ward, plus plenty more smashing around town. Plot your own path of destruction with our handy demolition address list, after the jump.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Sites of Houston destruction, all around town: Below the fold, the day’s demo addresses.
Excavators get back in the groove today. Find out where all the action’s gonna be — after the jump.
Terrific deal in today’s report: Almost a straight flush on 8 1/2th Street, plus two pair of commercial properties and more than one full house. Check out the demolition cards after the jump.
Three lonely homes is all today. Perhaps the demolition Thanksgiving stretched to Monday?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday. Today’s report includes permits obtained the day before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Thanksgiving demolition leftovers in today’s demolition report! Locations are listed after the jump.
Today: A 56,355-square-foot industrial building relinquishes its lease on life, plus the end of it all for some homes in the Heights, a garage apartment and more. Our daily survey of Houston destruction is hiding just after the jump.
Spring St. houses go down out of season, plus a McDonald’s leaves Main. Demolition addresses are in our daily report, after the jump.
As if on cue, the Carousel House received a demolition permit Friday. (See 9602 Moonlight Dr. in today’s Daily Demolition Report, below.) As of this morning, the Meyerland mod is still intact — well, at least you’ll be able to see its silhouette through the fog.
Who wants to keep all those mold spores cooped up in a dingy old home, anyway — when really, they could be doing so much more for this city? Set them free!
Photo: Ben Hill
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Two stores quit Quitman; and on the other side of the block, two more flee Fulton. Plus: Moonlight sunset. The latest edition of what’s headed for demolition — after the jump.
Something’s going down at the Glenwood Cemetery. Plus a disappearance in the Bellaire Triangle, and the end of the Lawndale Food Market. All these demolitions are addressed in today’s report — after the jump!
So professional and amateur detectives have huddled over the Crowne Plaza demolition videos and what have they come up with? Here are the rumors . . . er, clues!
First, mysterious Flickr member txrice123 writes:
the police are investigating a report that there may have been someone inside the structure on the fifth floor in the middle. a video taken from the face of your side (from St. Luke’s) apparently shows this person run to the edge, then run back. if you have any shots from before, you may like to look closely and send them to hpd.
The photo txrice123 is commenting on was taken from the west side of the building, and St. Luke’s is to the north, so the comment is a little confusing, no? And, uh . . . which fifth floor? The hotel had a podium.
Next, KPRC-TV keeps talking about a “shadow,” but isn’t shedding any light on the subject:
The home video showed a shadow inside the building moments before it was destroyed on Sunday.
Who knows what lurked in there?
And of course there’s the mysterious sliding door, shown enlarged above from the video in Swamplot’s earlier post. ABC13 hypes this part of the video, but neglects to point out that several gust-inducing dynamite blasts have taken place and the building has already started to rumble by the time the door starts “sliding.” Hey, isn’t a fire door supposed to close in a case like this?
After the jump, the door slides shut!
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Watch this video very closely. Do you see someone entering the building before the demolition begins? Maybe on the left side of the screen?
No? Well, keep looking. How about enlarging the video — or breaking it down frame by frame — so you can examine it more carefully?
Apparently someone who shot a video of the same event from the same angle saw something in it so disturbing that he brought the footage to the attention of the Houston Police Department. And officers found the evidence credible enough that they spent the greater part of Wednesday searching through rubble to see if maybe someone got into the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Texas Medical Center shortly before it was imploded Sunday morning.
KHOU-TV reports that police are focusing their search on the Fannin side of the building, which would be the street on the left. The station also says that the video used as evidence was in fact taken from the St. Luke’s Medical Tower — the same vantage point as the YouTube video above.
So is the video above the same one the police are studying?
Two churches, a cafe, and a bunch of houses go down in today’s edition of our soon-to-be-demo’ed list. After the jump: addresses.
Here’s an awful thought: Was someone inside the Crowne Plaza Hotel when it was imploded Sunday morning? Channel 11 News is reporting that police received a tip earlier today “about a possible death on the site during the implosion.”
According to the tip, there may be video showing the person inside the building when it went down. It was unclear who had the video.
Police have yet to determine if the tip is legitimate.