Tag: Demolitions

9602 Moonlight Dr., Meyerland, Houston

One detail glossed over delicately in Lisa Gray’s colorful tale of the decline of Meyerland’s Carousel House, featured in today’s Chronicle: The abandoned home’s apparent awful stench. From a few would-be visitors, posting on HAIF:

The owner told me that everyone he’s taken in there has gotten sick soon after coming out. Apparently it is REALLY nasty in there. I may swing by and get some new filters for my mask.

and

i could smell “the smell” just standing in the driveway

But hey, the interior shots from just a few short years ago make the house look super fab! Built in 1964 by owner Robert Cohen, the Modern gem merited a Texas magazine feature story in 2003. Just four years, one ultra-rich attorney, one shady personal assistant, countless hookers, umpteen heroin hazes, and a couple of dozen missing exotic cars later, the house on the corner of Moonlight Dr. and Braesheather appears headed for an almost-certain but certainly difficult demolition. (15,000 pounds of steel, anyone?)

After the jump, highlights of the home from its heyday, excerpts from the sordid and fetid tale of its fall from Modern grace, and a photo of the far more up-to-date carousel that just might be built in its place!

77096, Buying and Selling, Demolitions, Fraud, Historic Preservation, Home Design, Homebuilders, Meyerland, Mold, New Construction: Residential, Toxic Sites

11/14/07 9:59am

Daily Demolition Report: Hollow Memorial

6242 Overbrook Ln., Houston

New homes are coming to Houston! Where? Right where these old ones are being torn down.

11/13/07 9:12am

Daily Demolition Report: Day Off

In honor of Veterans Day — or more specifically, because the Houston permit office was closed on Monday for the holiday — no permits were issued Monday, so there are none to report today. But don’t you worry: This city is already getting back to its important business of demolishing buildings. Just check back here tomorrow and you’ll see.

Attractions

11/12/07 11:36am

Crowne Plaza Demolition Party Report: All Your Pics and Videos

Demolitions, Hotels, Texas Medical Center

Crowne Plaza Hotel Demolition, Texas Medical Center, Houston

Looks like Sunday morning’s Crowne Plaza Hotel implosion at the Medical Center was a real party! We have reader reports and pics, plus a roundup of video and images from around the web — all after the jump.

77030, Attractions, Crowne Plaza Demolition, Demolitions, Hotels, Texas Medical Center

11/12/07 8:46am

Daily Demolition Report: Eigel Has Crash Landed

Swamplotâ€™s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.

The steady pace of destruction in the Third Ward continues. Plus: apartments, car-care centers, homes and more — all in today’s report. The address list is after the jump.

Condos

11/09/07 1:27pm

Forty-Two New Condos in the Old First Ward

Development Strategy, First Ward, Homebuilders, New Construction, New Construction: Residential, Parking, Proposed Developments

Site Plan for Sawyer Brownstones by Terramark Homes at 2110 Shearn St., Houston

How do you pack so many condos into an old warehouse building in Houston’s First Ward? Easy! You knock the warehouse down, build a gate around the block, and pack â€™em in!

Permit in hand, Terramark Homes begins construction on the Sawyer Brownstones at 2110 Shearn St. The forty-two units will take up the block surrounded by Shearn, Hemphill, Spring, and Henderson Streets, just south of I-10.

No images of the outside yet, so it’s hard to say if these brownstones will indeed have brown stone or just be brownstone-like. But continue after the jump and we’ll show you the secret to shoehorning so many townhome-style condos into a single block!

77007, Construction Materials, Demolitions, Development Strategy, First Ward, Garages, Homebuilders, New Construction, New Construction: Residential, Parking, Proposed Developments, Townhomes

11/09/07 8:54am

Daily Demolition Report: So Longmont

Today, a railroad-building demolition extravaganza! Plus, a blow to beauty on O.S.T. and the bitter end of four houses in a row in Tanglewood. Our list of demo-permit addresses begins after the jump.

11/08/07 9:03am

Daily Demolition Report: Memorial Bent

Two Washington Ave. structures, an apartment complex, and a light sprinkling of homes fill out today’s demolition-permit address list. As always, it’s all after the jump.

11/07/07 5:38am

Daily Demolition Report: Goodbye, Little Connie

Car lots and banks and houses and taco stands: They’re all going down. We list the day’s demo addresses after the jump.

11/06/07 9:00am

Daily Demolition Report: Four to the Floor

2206 Elmen St., Houston

In this all-inside-the-Loop edition of the daily demolition report, four buildings get set to experience crushing defeats. As usual, the address listing is hiding after the jump.

Attractions

11/05/07 3:31pm

Make Your Reservations Now for the Crowne Plaza Implosion

Demolitions, Hotels, Texas Medical Center

Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Texas Medical Center

Update: Demo pics, videos, and more are now here.

Who says real estate isn’t a spectator sport? There’s nothing that brings out crowds of dedicated fans early in the morning like a good ol’ fashioned Houston building implosion.

This weekend, you’ll be able to combine your demolition obsession with a romantic weekend getaway at the Medical Center Holiday Inn — where, from the comfort of your own room (if you can reserve one facing north), you’ll be able to start your Sunday morning with a bang.

At 7:10 on November 11th, the Crowne Plaza Hotel across the street at 6701 Main will come down in a cloud of dust, to the cheers of onlookers able to sneak into prime viewing areas — such as the south side of the soon-to-be-the-former John O’Quinn Medical Tower. If you’re an explosives fan but don’t have that kind of access to medical-office space, you can try the view from Southgate, east of Travis.

Fannin and Main Streets will be closed from Dryden to Holcombe starting at 6:30 a.m.

What’s the best spot for viewing the Cherry Demolition job?

77030, Attractions, Crowne Plaza Demolition, Demolitions, Hotels, Texas Medical Center

11/05/07 7:46am

Daily Demolition Report: Freed at Last

Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.

Pesky little buildings in the way of MainPlace, Greenview Manor holdouts, and more fill out today’s demo list. All those addresses are hiding after the jump.

11/02/07 8:16am

Daily Demolition Report: Elk Season

The Million-Dollar Tear-Down at 3109 Locke Ln., River Oaks, Houston

Houston gets back to business: a healthy dozen demos — plus the million-dollar teardown pictured above — to fill out today’s address list. Read it after the jump.

11/01/07 8:26am

Daily Demolition Report: The Day the Earth Stood Still

Uh . . . We got nothing. Nothing going down. For one day. Yeah, go figure.

10/31/07 11:04am

Daily Demolition Report: Blockbuster

6131 Inwood Dr. in Briargrove, Houston

Out with Northline Mall! Go away, Pizza Hut! Medical centers, homes, apartments, stores, and more get their comedownance in today’s demolition permit address list, after the jump.