Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What empty foolishness it is to care for what must one day be dispersed to air.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A house whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few, the wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Set wide the windows; let me drink the demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; demolition, a superabundance of strength.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We may encounter many demolitions, but we must not be defeated.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You can pick up and move, and leave rubble in the wake.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Don’t turn around, ’cause you’re gonna see these buildings breaking.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A fresh feel after a fresh clean sweep.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We’ll leave it up to the excavator to interpret these permits.
Some execution-ready excavator glamour shots next to 1810 Gray St. come from Fred Ghabriel, who snapped them yesterday evening in preparation for this morning’s underway demo of the space. The freestanding 1960s not-quite-under-the-freeway retail spot southwest of the junction of 59 and 45 is survived by some of its blockmates: the Citgo facing the Hamilton side of the block, and the Webster-and-Chenevert-facing double-decker strip center at 2117 Chenevert (home of Abacus Bail Bonds, Chase Shoe Shine Parlor, Heights Cleaners & Alterations, and nightclub Indigo at Midtown). The retail strip also contains an office of Bejjani & Associates, which owns the Gray-facing building currently under deconstruction (and with which Ghabriel is associated).
The structure at 1810 is getting cleared out for more parking for the center; the freed-up spots might get a touch of seasonal afternoon shade from the 3-sided billboard planted next to them, as seen in the now-moot leasing flier for the space:
The Teardown Blues
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One of these things is not like the others.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s only after we’ve demolished everything that we’re free to build anything.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The old Mr. Steak restaurant on Hillcroft has cleared its last meal, and other tales of empty tables.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Into each life some houses must fall.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
