Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Down like 1, 2, 3:
A couple of drive-by shots from Clinton Dr. show the state of demolition at the former Kellogg, Brown and Root campus, part of the effort to transform it into the new shopping, eating, working, and living complex that developer Midway has dubbed East River. Since beginning Friday, the teardown work has targeted the pair of warehouse buildings at the west end of the site, where their truck-docking holes front Jensen Dr. The 2 structures are the sole remnants of a much larger warehouse complex that once sat within the bounds of the 136-acre bayou-side site. Most of those industrial buildings were demolished between 2011 and 2012, leaving a swath of open space in the middle of the property — between the complex of office buildings that borders Hirsch Rd. to the east and the warehouses that now look to be goners.
In between those 2 bookends, a new black tarp has been added to portions of the construction fence along Clinton Dr., reports a reader. That’s where a multi-block colony of townhomes is planned; they’re shown in yellow on the map Midway put out over the summer:
Fifth Ward
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Lost Providence, Old Lake, mashed Mallow:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It all dates from too long ago to remember.
The owner of the abandoned restaurant storefront on Taft St. south of W. Gray didn’t waste much time in trashing the place after acquiring it in June. A demo permit filed last month condemned both the street-fronting building shown above and its backyard bungalow. The photo at top shows the state of things on Friday afternoon.
The new owner also bought the neighboring brick house on Peden St. around the same time:
A Flash in the Pan
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Gone, but also soon forgotten:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Without a Peep.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Today’s picking of home parts, annotated:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The bus stopped here.
 
The Friends of Downtown Friendswood withdrew its plan last week to install a new wooden carousel in Stevenson Park next-door to City Hall. Since last November, the site’s been home to a concrete pad left behind when the 42-year-old Fire Station #1 pictured above was demolished and its staff relocated to a new facility at 1610 Whitaker Dr., built with funds from a 2013 bond referendum. By the time of the teardown, the carousel idea (code-named “Project C”) was already on the table, and some residents accused city council of being a little too demolition-happy, owing to their friendliness with the civic organization that proposed it, reported the Chronicle‘s Jeremy Gingrich.
Instead of getting rid of the building, some argued, why not turn its 9,000 sq.-ft. into a community center to double down on the space offered by the city’s existing 9,500-sq.-ft. Friendswood Activity Building shown below at 416 Morningside St.?
Stevenson Park
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Twilight of the ranchitos supreme.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What we say to ourselves when the casualties become regular.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Making the new possible, one farewell at a time:
Crews have begun tearing into the building 4 blocks north of the Pierce Elevated formally known as U-Haul Moving and Storage of Midtown at San Jacinto in order to replace it with a new storage building nearly 8 times larger. About half the existing structure is down now thanks to the excavator that foregrounds the SkyHouse Main apartment building in the photo at top. Still standing: the entrance ramp to U-Haul’s rooftop parking lot — from which a fleet of orange trucks took off sometime before construction fencing surrounded the 28,376-sq.-ft. building late last month.
The new, 220,160-sq.-ft. facility could extend partly into the adjacent surface parking lot along Leeland St. according to plans the developer filed with the county earlier this year. Whether or not it does, most of the extra space will show up vertically in the form of something much taller than the 2-story that’s now crumbling at 1617 San Jacinto.
- Previously on Swamplot: Daily Demolition Report: U-Haul Away
Photos: Eric Ramon (demolition); U-Haul (building)
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