Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Seven of them, to be exact, taking down the entire block.
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Here’s a view of the scene this morning at 611 Shepherd Dr., which until late last year was the home of Kicks Indoor Soccer. The metal structure that housed the indoor artificial-turf field and bar is being kicked to the curb in anticipation of a new apartment complex planned by Mill Creek Residential, which is now in control of the full block bounded by Shepherd, Floyd, Blossom, and Durham, lodged between Rice Military and Magnolia Grove.
Photo: Mosaic Clinic
Kicks Out
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A flooded and gutted Lucian Hood–designed Meyerland home as well as a gas station/fast food combination demo-before-rebirth round out today’s list.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The time has come for another round of fresh starts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s time to turn off the lights, once and for all.
Do not mourn the Exxon station with the McDonald’s inside on the eastbound feeder road of the Katy Fwy. Yes, there’s a new fence around the property, and it’s about to be demolished. But the replacement is well worth waiting for: It’ll be a brand new Exxon station — with a brand new McDonald’s! Ah, but the more things stay the same, the more they change: A reader who contacted the burger chain’s regional office reports the new McDonald’s will sport McDonald’s “next generation” design, and will feature free wifi when it opens — around mid-October Election Day.
Photos: Swamplot inbox
Exxon and McDonald’s, Together Again
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
From the mountain and now back to the earth.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A scrubbed house spells a fresh start.
Here’s the last pieces of the former Pollo Bravo at 5440 Memorial Dr. still holding out against the excavator onslaught today. A reader sends the snapshot above from the Starbucks end of the strip center across the street. The demo permit for the structure came through on Thursday of last week, trailing in the wake of the property’s May 2015 sale and the restaurant’s subsequent December departure.
The owner of the Peruvian fusion chicken chain said at the time that she was seeking new locations; a few more Pollo Bravo spots seem to have opened up since then, including branches on Long Point Rd. east of Gessner, and on Mason Rd. south of Kingsland Blvd. Here’s one last look at the rapidly clearing site, between a Chase bank and the Memorial Towers apartments:
Fowl Flattening
No wrecking balls are swinging this morning at 801 Texas, but a reader notes that some of the glass panels of the southern facade are being draped in long swaths of black material, while others have already been removed. What about that lawsuit over tunnel rights that forced developer Hines not to demolish the building back in April? Documents filed with the district clerk’s office show that plaintiff Theatre Square did get the court to issue a temporary stop on any work “demolishing, damaging, interfering with, filling in, impacting or otherwise physically impairing” that particular piece of the former Chronicle building’s basement (which Theater Square wants for the purpose of building a tunnel system connection to its own property across Prairie St.) The court chose to modify that order in mid July, however, to clarify that Hines can demolish, damage, interfere with, fill in, impact or impair the section in ways that are reasonably necessary to design and build a new building on the site.
Coming Apart At The Seams
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s about time we have an Oak Forest flattening flurry upon us.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There is no suspense in inevitability.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It ain’t over ’til the excavator screams.
- 1816 Calumet St. 77004 (R. Miceli)
- 2022 Bolsover St. 77005 (Southampton Place; photos)
- 1927 Wroxton Rd. 77005 (Southampton Place)
- 450 Link Rd. 77009 (Gabert)
- 3559 Seabrook St. 77021 (South End Sunnyside)
- 3819 1/2 S. Braeswood Blvd. 77025 (Linkwood)
- 2414 Stevens St. 77026 (Samuel M. Harris)
- 526 W. Forest Dr. 77079 (Yorkshire)
- 6414 Sloan St. 77087 (Golfcrest; shed and carport)
- 8103 De Priest St. 77088 (Lincoln City)
- 2324 Bartlett St. 77098 (Greenbriar; garage only)
Photo of 2022 Bolsover St.: HAR
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These particular measures will soon be no more.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No pictures, no problem – these will get taken care of no matter what.