Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Better get these out before the surroundings converge.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let these few escape below the horizon and out of sight forever.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They may be livable, but they’re even more smashable.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The end of of a 25 year fast food run awaits, plus a couple other bites out of the landscape to help round out the week.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fear not, what can’t be saved will start anew.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The lease is up and but a memory in a couple forests and beyond.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Grind them up to a fine dust and season to your liking.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This end will definitely provide a quiet place for something new.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Sending off April with a bang, crumple, smash.
What led up to the neighborly lawsuit filed last week over the former Houston Chronicle building’s planned demolition? A pair of letters filed with the county clerk’s office as part of the suit sheds a little light on the back-and-forth between the building’s new owners and their new neighbors. Plaintiff Theater Square, a partnership controlled by construction and development firm Linbeck, is developing the downtown block marked SITE in the map above, immediately across Prairie St. from the former Chronicle property (bought last year by Hines entity Block 58 Investors). Theater Square wants to link its own could-be-a-Class-A-contender block into the Downtown tunnel network (traced above in solid black).
The company sued both Hines and Chronicle owner Hearst News last week to stop the demo, claiming that Hearst gave it property rights to build a new tunnel through the newspaper building’s basement (via the route shown in stripes above along Travis St.) and that the demo (as currently intended) interferes with that plan. Theater Square sent a letter to Hines on April 15th citing news stories about the impending demo and requesting both access to inspect the basement and assurances that the demolition would be carried out in a way that doesn’t harm certain existing structures that the new tunnel’s already-semi-permitted building plans depend on.
Fight For The Right To Tunnel
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If we get rid of one, many more could go in its place.
That’s 2 stories down and 8 left to go for the last holdout in the former Corporate Plaza office park, seen here from the northeast looking across Kirby Dr. toward 59. The freeway-facing and side facades of the once-10-story midrise have been totally removed, and the remaining facade is beginning to look a bit patchy around the top; piles of debris can be seen stretching out to the north of the structure, across the now-barren Upper Kirby plain where the partially demolished Corporate Plaza parking garage nearly demolished part of the demo team back in February.
- Previously on Swamplot: Long Drawn-Out Breakup of Corporate Plaza Nearing Final Stages at Kirby and 59Watch Corporate Plaza Fail to Demolish Its Demo Crew with Surprise Garage Collapse; Shredding of Corporate Plaza’s Parking Garage Now In Progress on Kirby Dr.; Sweeping Up the Crumbs at the Former Home of Miyako, Red Onion, and Madras Pavilion; Demo Crew Now Chewing Through Former Miyako, Red Onion, Madras Pavilion Office Complex on Kirby at Norfolk
Photo: Lulu
Office-Appropriate Cut on Kirby
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Only these few to clear out – just try to picture it in your mind.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Send these with the current, incredible opportunities await to start from scratch.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All mimsy were the borogoves, at least in the Oak Forest.
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