Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the demolition of houses.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
ABD. “A”, always. “B”, be. “D”, demolishing. Always be demolishing.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and demolitions will fall behind you.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I never see what has been demolished; I only see what remains to be demolished.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It is not enough to know your demolition craft – you have to have feeling.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And now’s the time, the time is now to demolish these places.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Build, live, demolish, repeat.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What we have once demolished we can never lose. All that we demolished deeply becomes a part of us.
A Swamplot reader sends photos of the partial demolition now underway along Commerce St. just off Colby in the Second Ward just north of East Downtown. Ancorian bought 3 warehouses between Commerce and Canal St. last November and plans to redevelop the site into a single dock-front building with a parking lot along its west side. The new development, dubbed The Block, would consist of 44,000 sq. ft. of “creative workspace and retail.â€
Here’s an aerial view looking west along Commerce St taken from before the demolition.:
Second Ward Redo
The 4949 Convenience Store, heir to the Sunrise Grocery spot on the northeast corner of Bissonnet and Shepherd, has been demolished — this time in its entirety, and with a little less fanfare. Back in September, crowds gathered to watch ceiling-mounted wrecking balls bust up parts of the building’s interior as part of a “site specific, kinetic installation” by artist Trey Duvall.
Cherry Demolition’s more conventional performance took place yesterday, a reader tells Swamplot; the photo at top shows the lot after it was cleared out this morning. A 3-story office building with a street-level cafe is planned for the site.
Boulevard Oaks
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One that would have the fruit must demolish the buildings.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All fine architectural values are demolition values, else not valuable.
COMMENT OF THE DAY: ANOTHER WILLOW MEADOWS FAREWELL 
“Willowgrove is a beautiful street, and sadly, I think we’re going to see several homes come down akin to what we saw & are seeing again in Meyerland (I believe there was another one yesterday). It’s predominately 1960s single-story ranch homes, many custom designed and some of them oversized vs. the rest of neighborhood, below a canopy of oaks that drape the street. It’s terribly sad that what it was before is just gone now. Willowgrove backs up to one of the feeder ravines that breached when the bayou did, and homes on both sides of it — Cliffwood and Willowgrove — took a massive hit compared to the surrounding streets that only had street flooding. The cap on flood insurance, if homeowners had it, wouldn’t cover the value of those homes. I’ve had neighbors ask me, and I genuinely do not know — are those concrete ravines/mini-bayous supposed to drain/connect to Willow Water Hole at some point? Was that already supposed to have happened? If so, what was the delay?” [Heather, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Lynn Parked] Photo of 10202 Willowgrove Dr. interior (now for sale): HAR
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Loss and demolition, death and life are one. There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
