Demolition Plans & Specs out on street for Midtown Plaza - The engineers estimate is $14.5 million. Along with substantial demolition there is the construction of new tunnels, new electrical ductbanks, etc.

I have heard that the cost of utility disconnects and re-connects for the abatement was $100,000 per building for 13 buildings.

List of Bidders:
1.) CCI - North Carolina
2.) Wrecking Corp USA - Southern NY - P.M Schwab (infamous last name)
3.) Dore & Assc - Michagan
4.) Independence Wrecking - OH
5.) Sabre - Syracuse, NY
6.) Ontario Specialty Contracting - Buffalo
7.) Titan Wrecking - Buffalo
8.) LVI - Rochester
9.) Metro Environmental
10.) Laborers - Local 435
11.) Operators - Local -832
12.) Custom Topsoil
13.) Homrich - Michagan
14.) Bianchi Industrial Services - Syracuse (so much for any rumors)
15.) Demrex - Philadelphia (should be interesting based on history w/unions in Philly if he should end up with it).
16.) Zoladz construction - Paul Defranks (old cleveland wrecking office buffalo)
17.) Nuprecon - with a Maine address????
18.) Empire Wrecking - Webster NY
19.) Frederico - Rochester, NY
20.) Ritter & Paratore Contracting - Utica, NY
21.) NYTECH - rochester
22.) O'Connell Electric - Rochester (better pay attention to his #)
23.) Testa - MA
24.) Christa - Rochester (CM & GC)
25.) Terrasan - Benedict Colombo (NYC)
26.) Morgan/Christa - WBE joint venture w.christa (Rochester)
27.) Oddu Const - MBE rochester
28.) CST Environmental -California
29.) Breeze National - NYC (contractor that demolished Shea Stadium)
30.) Dakota Environmental - Syracuse, NY
31.) Maple Grove Enterprize - Rochester, NY - MBE
32.) Tenney Rigging - Buffalo (Scary based on some bid results I've seen)
33.) Cambria - Lockport, NY (winner of phase 1 - $34 million abatement)
34.) Sessler Wrecking - Waterloo, NY -Specializes in bridges
35.) AJ Montclair - Utica, NY
36.) Vasile Construction - Rochester, MBE
37.) Empire Dismantlement - Sam DeFranks (Another piece of Cleveland Wrecking from Buffalo)
38.) Clark Rigging - Rochester, NY
39.) LeChase Construction - Rochester, NY (CM & GC)
40.) Jackson Demolition - Schenectady, NY
41.) LaBella Asso - Rochester, NY (Air consultant)
42.) Manafort brothers - CT
43.) NASDI -Waltham MA
44.) Brandenburg - Bethlehem PA
45.) CP Ward - Rochester (GC & CM)
46.) ECG - Rochester, NY

Of these contractors the questions should be: 1.) Who is Union, 2.) Who has the capability, 3.) Who has that Bonding Capability - these are the players:

Not in any particular order.
1.) Sabre (did Colts Stadium, union, surely can get a bond - but is all the earthwork - tunneling, electric their cup of tea)
2.) Dore & Associates (bids anything and everything - throws numbers like darts - if he's with 25% he'll attempt to take it)
3.) Ontario Specialty (By giving away big % of company don't know if they could get a bond, but certainly capable, also may be issue with Unions)
4.) Titan Wrecking - Ditto to # 2 (numbers are all over the place)
5.) Homrich - Big, Capable and Union (but its not all wrecking)
6.) Bianchi - My guess is they won't bid because of the tunnels, etc -no one capable of pricing that for them.
7.) Nuprecon - Big time west coast - but can they get it together for this project?
8.) Ritter & Paratore - Not Union - could do earthwork
9.)Testa - probably not enough steel to interest Steve
10.) Christa - they attended for a reason (probably team with demo guy that good never get a bond that big)
11.) Terrasan -See 2 & 4
12.) Breeze -did shea, are union, but doesn't know upstate market
13.) Tenny Rigging - See 2, 4, & 11
14.) Cambria - bonded $34 million on phase 1, are union, did stoney pt power plant - certainly has big iron - major contender
15.) Sessler - union, big enough, in their back yard - expect a good #
16.) LeChase - See #10
17.)Jackson Demolition - couldn't get a bond that big
18.) Manafort Brothers - another major player
19.) Brandenburg - as big as they get, union, but usually quite high on public work.
20.) NASDI - union, big, and has done a project in Syracuse (major contender);

Looks like out of the 20 maybe 7-10 will decide to play: Predictions
Cambria, NASDI, Sessler, Homrich, OSC, Sabre, Bianchi, Manafort, Brandenburg, Ritter & Paratore.