It’s unclear why the building, at the intersection of Elgin and Ennis streets in the Third Ward, was torn down.
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A man who calls himself Bobby said the abandoned laundromat on the corner of Elgin and Ennis streets in Houston’s Third Ward had been his home for years. He remembers when the mural of George Floyd was first painted on the building’s southeast wall nearly five years ago, shortly after Floyd’s murder.
“They did such a fantastic job [painting the mural],” Bobby said while sitting on the foundation of the now-demolished building. “I’m homeless and there was a laundromat there, so I was living inside. And now I’m more homeless. But I have relatives and things that I will go see and I have friends. I’m an old Boy Scout, so I like the outside.”…