In which the site of Blanco’s is blanked out. Plus these soon-to-be pastoral scenes:
In which the site of Blanco’s is blanked out. Plus these soon-to-be pastoral scenes:
The old standbys, the ones you can really count on to go down in a pinch.
City offices were closed yesterday for the Martin Luther King holiday. So today’s demo-permit report comes up empty.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We’ll have these alterations done for you by the end of next week:
Dallas apartment developer Streetlights Residential is planning to build this 20-story apartment tower on the former site of the Eye Excellence clinic at 4 Chelsea Blvd., backing up to the Southwest Fwy. just south of where it spits out the Downtown Spur. The company bought the property behind the Chelsea Market shopping center last September, tacking on an additional freeway-facing parcel. The rendering above shows the not-quite-final scheme from Dallas architects Gromatzky Dupree & Associates.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Wake up on the demolished side.
Filling out a missing properties report — in advance. Here’s what we’ve got so far:
Piece by piece, building by building, we are ripping ourselves a new city.
What’s that giant red crane looming downtown on the block surrounded by Main, Texas, Fannin, and Capitol? Assembling another crane. Which, in turn, will do all sorts of nasty business to the 21-story Texas Tower, which happens to be in the way of the shiny new 609 Main St. office tower that Hines plans to build on that block. The Texas Tower’s original Art Deco details were removed in the 1940s; back then it was known as the Sterling Building. It went up in 1931.
It’s the final buzzer for the Delmar Fieldhouse — and these other fine structures:
Moving along at a steady clip — use these addresses to map the path of destruction:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s begin the week with the end of these: