Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No new demolition permits have been issued by the city yet – stay tuned and we’ll post ’em when we get ’em.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No new demolition permits were issued by the city on Monday. So we’ve got nothing here.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Beauty in demolition is the most affecting beauty.
Demo crews making a mess of the former Exxon Upstream Research Facility on Buffalo Spdwy. between Richmond and W. Alabama started early this morning — at 5:30 am, reports a reader. Erick Ganzo, who’s been tracking the steady disappearance of the MacKie and Kamrath Architects 1962 office complex (as well as more recent additions) from the 16.9-acre compound, says workers lit up the site with large bright lights before the rising sun took over that job. He tells Swamplot he assumes workers are aiming to complete demo work before Hurricane Harvey arrives later today.
- Previously on Swamplot: Midcentury Mod Former Exxon Office on Buffalo Spdwy. Slowly Disappearing from Behind; The Continuing Untold Story of What Happened When ExxonMobil Moved North; What’s Going Down at the Former Exxon Upstream Site: An Aerial Take; Mashing, Smashing Begin in Earnest at Buffalo Spdwy. Ex-Exxon Campus; Daily Demolition Report: West Mandell Defaced; New Owner of Exxon’s Buffalo Spdwy. Research Campus Knocking Out Exterior Defenses This Week
Photo: Erick Ganzo
3120 Buffalo Speedway
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In this issue: a bit of MetroNational clearance — plus more pedestrian domestic disturbances.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The longstanding culinary — and car-towing — standoff on Old Spanish Trail between Guy’s Meat Market and the adjacent Sunshine’s Vegetarian Deli has finally come to an end.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Gear up, tear down, and move on.
Class dismissed – we’ll return as soon as technical difficulties with the city’s permit reporting system are resolved.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All I got was a demolition tone.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fortune knocks but once, but demolition has much more patience.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fire tests gold, demolition tests brave men.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We found our happy ending for there’s only demolition.
A quick break for the bulldozer – we’ll return as soon as technical difficulties with the city’s permit reporting system are resolved.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
The new Holiday Inn Express about to begin construction at 3401 N. Main St. in the Near Northside will have some consistently quiet neighbors and some occasionally very loud ones — with the steady drone of the adjacent North Fwy. available to somehow bridge the gap. The 1.44-acre site, where the Casa Grande Mexican Restaurant stood until it was torn down 2 years ago (and Stuarts Drive-In before it), sits across N. Main St. from the Hollywood Cemetery (yes, the same cemetery featured in Wes Anderson movie Rushmore). And it’s just a bit more than a quarter-mile up N. Main from the White Oak Music Hall complex, whose outdoor concert habit spurred nearby residents kept up late at night by the noise to file suit against the venue — and later, the city of Houston — for failing to follow (and enforce) local sound ordinances.
Late last month, crews removed the concrete paving left behind after the Casa Grande demolition (see photos above). Just this week, a city permit was granted for a 58,929-sq.-ft., 95-room Holiday Inn Express on the site — up 10 rooms from the 85 promised a couple of years ago, when the developers submitted these drawings as part of an application for a variance that would allow them not to have to extend or widen Norma St., on the north end of the lot:
Near Near Northside
