Final preparations for the long-planned demolition of the Pimlico racetrack this summer will begin soon after next week’s Preakness Stakes, state officials said ahead of a Wednesday vote by the Maryland Board of Public Works to approve the demolition contract. After years of delays, the upcoming Preakness will be the last at the current Park […]
HONOLULU (Island News) — The building in Honolulu that a Kamaka Air cargo plane crashed near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport that resulted in the deaths of the plane’s two pilots is being demolished. Island News has learned that the state Department of Transportation has recently filed documents to hire a contractor to demolish […]
Demolition work is gearing up at 655 Madison Avenue, the site of a 37-story mixed-use tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Extell, the 193,000-square-foot structure will yield 62 condominium units and ground-floor retail space. The property is located at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 60th […]
WRIGLEYVILLE — One of the most iconic buildings in Wrigleyville is being torn down just weeks before Opening Day. Demolition is underway at 3631 N. Sheffield Ave., one of three historic Wrigley Field rooftop buildings slated to be torn down and replaced with a 29-unit apartment building. A contractor at the site said the demolition, […]
Demolition work began Wednesday on Smith Foundry, shocking residents of Minneapolis’ East Phillips neighborhood who say they weren’t informed that the building, which closed last summer following federal pollution violations, would be torn down and are concerned about pollution risks. Smith Foundry closed in August after reaching a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). […]
Demolition is underway on the former City Place Shopping Center in Downtown Long Beach. It will soon be replaced by an eight-story building that includes nearly 300 apartment units and more than 19,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. This week, crews began tearing down the indoor shopping complex along Long Beach Boulevard between Fourth […]
SOUTH BELOIT – An Illinois appeals court sided with the City of South Beloit on the costs of demolishing the former Garden Hotel. On April 17, the Illinois Appellate of the 4th District ruled that the city gave the hotel owner, New Chapter Group, fair notice of code violations, that repairing the hotel made no […]
What’s happening: A symbol of outdated urban renewal practices will soon meet its fate in downtown Pontiac, where the oft-maligned Phoenix Center will soon be razed to the ground. Soft demolition has already begun within the former parking garage-events center and structural demolition will begin this May, paving the way for a restoration of downtown […]
SALT LAKE CITY — City structures painted with the murals of numerous people killed in interactions with police are coming down as the planned redevelopment of the site where the buildings sit edges forward. The demolition had been planned, and the work to bulldoze the buildings started March 18, said Sofia Jeremias, spokeswoman for the […]
The more than 80 wind turbines in Osage County ordered demolished by a federal judge will remain for a while after a federal court granted a stay in the order. Osage Wind, LLC, a subsidiary of Enel Green Power North America sought the stay following a judge’s ruling last year. The company is appealing the […]