Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not demolish?’
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The discovery of demolition was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but no picture is worth about five demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I demolish and I understand.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is not an event, it is a habit.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Our sorrows and houses are healed only when we touch them with demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s bad, huh? Like houses rolled in sand.
The building at 2850 Fannin St. (seen here across the Main St. light-rail tracks next to the recently gassed Art Supply building) has been split into pieces as of this morning. A reader on the scene caught sight (and footage, above) of several excavators simultaneously scraping away at the scene, with aid from a small bulldozer. Here’s a few more views of what was left of the structure and its extensive paint job:
Parting Shots
No permits on the city holiday, but the breaking will resume tomorrow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Some trails are happy ones, others are blue.
Before being shooed away by fire department folks near the corner of Dennis and Fannin streets around noon yesterday, reader and art blogger Robert Boyd managed to snap a shot of the hole dug recently along the sidewalk. “You might be able to see that the fire fighters were wearing gas masks,” Boyd notes, surmising that the digging was related to the gas lines for the under-deconstruction former Mental Health and Mental Retardation Association building building a block further south (shown above); the digging apparently also caused the gas leak that triggered the shutdown of several nearby streets for part of the day. Boyd reports that the folks in the Art Supply on Main building, located between the digging and the demo site, “were totally cut off for most of [the day]. HFD showed up and asked up all to stay inside — we could get out of our parking lot, but not back in.”
The emergency crews departed mid-afternoon, shortly after Boyd snapped a more elevated shot of the fire engine (evocatively juxtaposed with a signal-red stop sign and a rare view of fall-esque Houston foliage):
Sights and Scents of Dennis St.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the houses and garages prisoner?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Ah, nothing is too late, till the tired bulldozer shall cease to demolish.
The deconstruction crew that brought Meteor Lounge to the ground at Fairview and Genesee streets last week got in a last round of crushing digs at the fallen structure over the weekend, a reader reports: “They piled up all the bricks and ran over them with the huge excavator, crushing them. They then moved the debris and spread it over the dirt in the ‘parking’ lot across the street from Max’s Wine Dive.” The obliterated former club’s corner property is planned as the location of a proposed 5-story parking garage for the Fairview District redevelopment; here’s the view from Fairview of the rearranged structure itself, facing southeast toward the CenterPoint electrical substation on Genesee:
Fairview Impacts
