Tag: Demolitions

06/30/15 9:15am

Daily Demolition Report: Linkwood Break

1609 Crockett St., Baker North Side Buffalo Bayou, First Ward, Houston

Time to summerize a few more homes.

06/29/15 10:30am

Daily Demolition Report: Stomping Saint Augustine

1531 Jacquelyn Dr., Craig Woods, Houston

Swamplotâ€™s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.

Demolishing the past is how we construct the present.

06/26/15 10:00am

Daily Demolition Report: The Gone Darlings

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1026 W. 22nd St., Quensell Lawn, Shady Acres, Houston

These will miss out.

06/25/15 9:45am

Daily Demolition Report: Less on Morse

Just close your eyes and try to imagine these. Then imagine them gone.

Apartments

06/24/15 3:15pm

Almost the Very End of the Kirby Court Apartments

Redevelopment, Upper Kirby

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Pre-Demolition Work on Kirby Court Apartments, 2700 Steel St. Between Kirby Dr. and Virginia St., Upper Kirby, Houston

Pre-Demolition Work on Kirby Court Apartments, 2700 Steel St. Between Kirby Dr. and Virginia St., Upper Kirby, Houston TheÂ casement windows are out from the 1949 Kirby Court Apartments along oak-lined Steel St., just west of Kirby from the Whole Foods Market. There’s been no formal announcement of plans for the site; Hanover, for the time being, is laying back from its plans to build an apartment tower and restaurant row along the Kirby frontage at the north side of the street.

The last residents of the 2-story, townhome-style apartments moved out at the beginning of the year. Here’s a quick tour of the scene on the very quiet street, which appears ready for demolition:

South of West Ave

77098, Apartments, Demolitions, Redevelopment, Upper Kirby

06/24/15 9:15am

Daily Demolition Report: Stanford, Oxford, Kingsbury

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1404 Stanford St., Montrose, Houston

No matter how humble, you must always maintain pride in your contributions and removals.

Commercial Real Estate

06/23/15 4:30pm

The End of a Shady Acres Medical Clinic

Demolitions, Medical Buildings, Shady Acres

Demolition of 2499 Ella Blvd., Shady Acres, Houston

This was the scene over the weekend at 2499 Ella Blvd., at the corner of 25th St. in Shady Acres — as photographed by a Swamplot reader. The vacant former Ella Family Medicine clinic building, known also more recently as the home of the Fulton Pharmacy, is no more.

Photos: Veronica Jones

Weekend Clearance

77008, Commercial Real Estate, Demolitions, Medical Clinics, Shady-Acres

06/23/15 1:45pm

Revealing the Full Plan for Skanska’s Downtown Block Will Take Some Time

Downtown, Highrises, Office Buildings, Parking, Proposed Developments, Quicklink

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REVEALING THE FULL PLAN FOR SKANSKA’S DOWNTOWN BLOCK WILL TAKE SOME TIME Construction of Temporary Parking Garage, Houston Club Building, 811 Rusk St., Downtown Houston The Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff does her level best to decipher and explain the strange sequence of events at Skanska’s ongoing demolition-construction-demolition-construction project across the street from Pennzoil Place: “The developer planning Capitol Tower, the 35-story office building slated for downtownâ€™s former Houston Club building site, is planning to pour the foundation for the structure next month, but as of now, there are no plans to construct the tower portion of the project. So whatâ€™s with all the construction on the property? The Houston Club building was imploded last year, but the garage on the site was to remain because of an existing parking contract. During the implosion, however, the garage was damaged and had to be demolished. Project developer Skanska USA Commercial Development is now building a new garage on the southern half of the block. ‘Weâ€™re still executing our project plans,’ said Michael Mair, executive vice president and regional manager for Skanska USA in Houston.” Left out of the explanation: The multi-story steel parking structure and ramps Skanska built for the garage before it was demolished — pictured here under construction in front of the then-still-standing Houston Club Building last March. The downtown block, surrounded by Rusk, Travis, Milam, and Capitol streets, is now empty. [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Swamplot inbox

77002, Demolitions, Downtown, Highrises, Office Buildings, Parking-Garages, Proposed Developments

06/23/15 10:00am

Daily Demolition Report: Lakes Out

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2122 Del Monte Dr., River Oaks, Houston

We’re left with these, but then these go away too.

06/22/15 1:45pm

The Casa Grande Takedown Has Begun

Glen Park, Redevelopment, Restaurants

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Casa Grande Mexican Restaurant, 3401 N. Main St., Glen Park, Houston

Demolition of the Casa Grande Mexican Restaurant at 3401 N. Main St. at the corner of Norma began last Friday. A reader reports hearing from residents of the nearby Glen Park neighborhood that a new Holiday Inn Express is planned for the site. The property backs up to the freeway just south of the N. Main—I-45 intersection.

Above: The wateredÂ fall, in progress. Below: A few photos of the restaurant’s final scene, from just a few days earlier.