Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just to tear it down, and mess it around.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The highest bidder for the highest and best use.
Permissions started to trickle in earlier this month for the  knockout of various buildings on the newly former Exxon Upstream research facility at the corner of Buffalo Spdwy. and W. Alabama St. California-based Spear Street Capital and Transwestern admitted to buying the property last week but stayed mum on plans for the site. A reader took a wandering tour around the edge of the 1950s lab complex yesterday afternoon, noting the parking garage teardown shown above, and the various signs of deliberately accelerated wear-and-tear around the rest of the structures:
Upstream Going Down
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
To get the full value of demolition you must have someone to divide it with.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The most certain way to succeed is always to demolish just one more time.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I think I’ll dismember the buildings and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We will not tell thee whose men we are, nor whose men that we be; but we will demolish here in this chase in the spite of thine and of thee.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Yes, retained by prominent interests, he drank up the last of the coffee and demolished the buildings.
As heralded by last Wednesday’s daily demolition report, the low-slung insurance and marketing office building at 2723 Yale St. is now in tatters. The post-smashing shot above was taken in a drive-by by a reader yesterday (who notes this morning that most of the debris has since been hauled off).
Planned for the lot is a new strip center being marketed by East Village developer Ancorian as a retail-office-restaurant mashup, “anchored” by the mini Whole Foods in the works across 610. The property is loosely sandwiched between the combination KFC-Taco Bell to the south and the side-by-side Burger King and new El Rey sitting along the North Loop feeder road (visible to the right).
Renderings of the proposed strip show a mix of brick, wood, metal grating, glass, and patches of other skin materials; a Newquest Properties leasing flier shows the building turning away from Yale St. to face W. 28th St., behind a thick protective later of parking:
Cleaning Up in the Heights
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is demolition and demolition will have his day.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
People may hear your words, but they feel your demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If it can be destroyed by the excavator, it deserves to be destroyed by the excavator.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If everything seems under control, you’re not demolishing fast enough.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
