Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The end of these buildings doesn’t mean that it’s over.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They left tracks in history that will never be demolished by wind or rain, never plowed under by tractors, never buried in compost of events.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 buildings that won’t work.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old demolitions.
First on Linbeck’s docket for the block across Prairie St. from the slowly dissolving former Chronicle building: the 11-story parking garage rendered above. The structure is planned for the southern half of the block between Prairie St. and Market Square, which means the restaurant space depicted in the rendering will face Travis St. (presuming the retail spot is not just part of a clever disguise). The garage is being branded as One Market Square until such time as something a little taller goes up next to it and takes the name, joining Market Square Tower and Aris Market Square along Preston St. to either side.
Back across Prairie St., the wrapped-together collection of buildings formerly housing the Houston Chronicle‘s operations has been getting slowly disassembled since a judge ruled over the summer that Hines could carefully demo the structures. A couple of high-up shot from this morning (above, and below) shows the current state of affairs inside the rubble-in-progress:
Rising and Falling on Prairie St.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the demolition that produced them.
The excavator treatment is complete for that subset of Archstone Memorial Heights apartment buildings that’ll be replaced by a mixed-use midrise with an H-E-B at the bottom, a neighbor notes. The shot above shows one of the buildings midway through the deconstruction process, which began earlier this month after that fenceless gate showed up on the site. Also noted during the demo weeks — a handful of firefighters rappelling down the side of the empty unit above.
As of about sunset yesterday, the site is now fully emptied out:
Climbing the Walls on Wash Ave
COMMENT OF THE DAY: WHAT’S GONE AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ON LOUISIANA ST. 
“I just stumbled upon this today (having moved away from Houston in the early 90s.) Kind of breaks my heart to see it gone, having been the maître d’ and sommelier there in the late 80s and early 90s. . . . I still have dreams of a hidden cellar beyond the famous cellar downstairs.” [Kevin Metivier, commenting on Those 2 Century-Old Louisiana St. Buildings Being Demolished Now for Lancaster Hotel Parking] Photo of 517 Louisiana demolition: Jack Miller
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell buildings!
The 10-story tower segment of the Americana building at 811 Dallas St. is now undergoing disassembly, Nancy Sarnoff confirms this afternoon. A few folks caught sight of the tell-tale orange barricades and fencing around the base of the tower over the weekend; the view above was captured from Milam St. and shows the defunct former Subway on the Dallas corner of the block. Hilcorp, which owns the site (and also wrapped up its new tower across Travis St. on the site of the Foley’s blowup early last year), hasn’t yet announced further-down-the-line plans for the block. No explosives are part of the plan for this demo, however — the tower will be taken apart piece by piece, leaving the parking garage intact.
- Downtown Americana Building To Be Demolished [Houston Chronicle]
- Previously on Swamplot: Mayor Parker Announces the Death Sentence for Downtown Macy’s Building; Zeroing Out the Americana Building
Photo: ThaChadwick
Laid Low Downtown
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a whole new house.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All things live forever, though at times they sleep and are demolished.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Structures cut to pieces are a promise of life: they will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A little bit of demolition makes the world less cold and more just.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
But only one will steal your heart.
