Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A few glamorous remnants left in the soon to be cleared S. Post Oak Lane house, plus several other odds and ends to clean up around town in today’s report.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Uncommon or not, these will never be found again after today’s report.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Many options are available, but a smashing one is definitely in the cards for these two properties.
Here’s this morning’s view of the former Corporate Plaza site, now sans the skeletal midrise that spent much of May wasting away. Standing at the edge of the rubble is the Texas Direct Auto billboard, visible here from its non-dayglo-yellow backside above the cluster of excavators picking over the last of the former midrise. On the left (at the corner of Kirby and 59) is the separately-owned Shell service station property, boxed in by the increasingly empty lot throughout the entire demo spectacle.
The retail strip at 1927 Fairview St. is now being gutted and cleaned out into a large dumpster parked in front of the former Te House of Tea and Trudy’s resale boutique. Permits to clear out some interior walls and redo the space were issued at the start of this month to an entity named Riel Restaurant; also listed on those permits are the company phone number and CEO of South Union-based seafood importer Marine Foods Express.Â
Out back behind the retail strip, the nextdoor 1935 bungalow at 2410 Woodhead St. appears to be joining Te’s former backyard garden in becoming a parking lot — purportedly a green one:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There will be vivacious revitalization without this old Victorian queen.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Don’t judge too harshly, the competition is tough.
Here’s the raw scene captured around lunch time today, when a small pack of excavators was sighted rooting through the debris at the base of the former Corporate Plaza I midrise. The increasingly see-through office building was fully de-striped some time between yesterday (second photo) and noon today (top); below is a quick video of the excavator crew gently yanking down a piece of what appears to be the 4th-story floor:Â
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It will be the excavator’s way or the highway for these select few.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Even charm backed by substance won’t keep any of these around.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Time is up for these outcasts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Memorial Bend just can’t hang on to its original stock, plus a few other tales of letting go.
WAXING POETIC OVER THE DEMOLITION OF AN ALLEN CENTER SKYBRIDGE 
“The age of confinement is over,” pens Realty News Report editor Ralph Bivins this week in his first foray into real estate poetry. Bivins was moved to verse by the details released last week on the upcoming redo of the 3 Allen Center towers at Smith and Dallas streets — more specifically, by the fact that Brookfield’s plans for the site includes the removal of one of the skybridges between One and Two Allen Center, as well as the earthen berm beneath it. The demo will turn the long-sequestered landscaped green space between the buildings into a street-accessible events lawn. The rest of the poem, entitled A quick verse by R. Bivins for Kenneth Schnitzer, Texas Eastern and the prior generation of downtown development, can be read here. [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot] Rendering of planned Allen Center redo: Studio AMD
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Looks are deceiving for our early 1900s newspaper building, but clearing out all of these on the list is as clear as day.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These shall be swiftly expunged from the landscape without a trace.
