Plus: minusing gold and song near Minute Maid Park.
The northeast corner of Westheimer and Fondren, where until recently a Landry’s Seafood restaurant and a Prosperity Bank building stood, is the scene for this remarkable series of photos sent to Swamplot by reader Roy Cormier, showing the demolition in progress earlier this month. Above, an excavator nibbles away at the remaining urban oasis at the end of the parking lot. Below, we find the drive-up ATM at the end of civilization:
And here we go away with what we will no longer have, leaving us only with what’s left.
Seeing the Eighteenth for the last time — and other complicated numerical exercises about town.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Hello! These must be going. They cannot stay. We came to say: They must be going.
Goodbye, Skylane Central — and a tour of other breakups around town. From some real homewreckers.
The quicker we can knock these down, the quicker we can get back to our Zen practice.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Hello and good morning! We’ve got these properties to take to the dumpster. Then we’ll be right back for construction fun!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Can’t show any of these disappearing. You’ll just have to take our word that they’re going away.