Here’s an interrupted last look at the Town & Country V office building at 908 Town & Country Blvd., which is clearly in the way of the CityCentre expansion.
The 6-story building is the last of a group of 4 being removed from the growing mixed-use district’s northern border. Earlier last month, crews were eating at the structure from the I-10 side:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
But me and my true house will never meet again, on the bonnie, bonnie lots o’ Loch Lomond.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Even when you turn your back now, I can feel you demolishing for me.
Here’s the scene from Heights Blvd. this morning, where the former Heights Finance Station — that was the fancy name for the neighborhood’s main post office — lies in trucked-off ruins. The construction fence along the right side of the image lines 11th St. The view from Brie Kelman’s camera faces west, toward Yale St.; the former Citgo gas station now known as whiskey bar Eight Row Flint, on the opposite side of Yale, is visible just to the left of center in the distance (if you look closely).
Here’s a different view of the site from just a few days ago:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A lot’s worth is no greater than its ambitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Houses are a game and demolition is a trophy.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Garage, garage, garage, goose!
The former Heights Finance Station post office at the corner of Heights Blvd. and 11th St. — its parking lot and front door face Yale St. — is coming down in a hail of lovingly painted bricks today. The post office was closed at the end of 2015 and subsequently purchased by developer MFT Interests. The single-story building was later festooned with an assortment of romance– and ZIP-code-themed murals.
MFT is calling the new development it has planned for the 1050 Yale St. site Heights Central Station. It’ll consist of two 2-story painted-brick buildings fronting 11th St.:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
To make life worth living, he must pluck and possess the houses of each region and the love of every beauty.
It appears demolition contractors — or the site’s new owners — saw fit to remove the mural of Destiny’s Child from the House of Deréon Media Center building in Midtown before beginning to break it down last week. The time-lapse video above shows an excavator tearing apart the 2-story structure at 2204 Crawford St. piece by piece on Friday. But the southern façade of the building, which faces Hadley St., looks a little different than it did just a week earlier. Where once hung giant images of Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles, and Michelle Williams, a plain white panel appears — the mural evidently having either been removed or painted over before demolition began.
Strangely, this is not the first sign of deference the demo contractors on site have shown the Bootylicious trio, before the building touted for many years as “The Home of Destiny’s Child” was given the boot. Last week an excavator appeared in front of the mural — only to sneak away a few days later:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And now let us welcome the new houses, full of things that never were.
COMMENT OF THE DAY: THE MIDTOWN HOME OF DESTINY’S CHILD HAS MET ITS DESTINY 
“Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but House of Deréon is but a memory now, a pile of rubble.” [Fe Bencosme, commenting on Destiny’s Child Mural on House of Deréon Media Center Wins Midtown Demolition Staredown; more here] Photo of House of Deréon Media Center, 2204 Crawford St., Midtown Houston: Jordan
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is demolished.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Life is either a daring demolition or nothing at all.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you demolish.
