Also on today’s menu: a row of takedowns on Center St., a building that was once on Nantucket, and so much more:
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Tag: Demolitions
The U.S. Postal Service plans to end all retail operations at its flagship Downtown Houston post office next Friday, May 15th. And that’ll be it for the Barbara Jordan Post Office in the 5-story 1962 building with concrete fins at 401 Franklin St. All P.O. box and caller services at that location have already ended; they stopped on May 1st. And the post office boxes themselves have been gently extricated as well, leaving this scene inside:
Get Your Stamps There While You Still Can
Spend time trying to remove your mistakes one by one — or get rid of all of them with one dramatic action.
Goodbye to a Telephone Rd. institution. And other great moments in local departure:
We must rid ourselves of distractions, for the interfere with what is truly important.
Crews are gutting the innards of the Kirby Court Apartments on Steel St. just west of Kirby, a reader tells Swamplot. Dumpsters are on the scene, chain-link fences are up, and trash is being thrown out of the backs of the 2-story townhouse-style garden apartment buildings; to our source it appears that asbestos abatement may be in progress.
Steel Waiting
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
That’s Cebra with a ‘C,’ and other urban re-striping efforts.
Crews are already at work (above) removing asbestos from the vacant shopping center at 9714 Buffalo Spdwy., one block up on S. Main St. from the South Loop and a mile and a half west of the Astrodome. Plans have already been made for the 1.26-acre property, as well as for the former America’s Best Value Inn immediately south of it at 9604 S. Main St. An entity controlled by developer Frank Liu bought the motel and its 3.13-acre lot in January, and pre-demolition activities are going on there now too.
Only the Starbucks Will Remain
A portion of the Riviana Foods complex at Summer and Taylor Streets in the First Ward was torn down this week. Reader Rony Canales’s panoramic photos of the former Riviana processing building and a few accompanying structures show the demo in process (above) and a little further along in the process (below):
After the Rice Is Gone
