Demolition News

LATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) — A construction worker has died after falling from the roof of a historic bank under demolition. The worker fell at the former Flatbush Avenue home of Flatbush Savings Bank just before 8:30 a.m. Thursday. The 49-year-old man from the Bronx was taken to Kings County hospital where he was later pronounced […]

Demolition of the Vance Monument in downtown Asheville began Monday and will take roughly two weeks to complete.The 65-foot high stone obelisk in Pack Square will be taken down block by block. The city says the contractor doing the work can’t use a crane to help because of an underground parking garage at the site […]

Constructed in 1941, Yamacraw Village, a 315-unit public housing development just west of Savannah’s downtown core, is being considered for demolition by the Housing Authority of Savannah (HAS). Speaking during the City Council workshop on Thursday, Earline Davis, HAS executive director, said the organization hopes to submit an application for demolition to the U.S. Department […]

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The Newport Planning Board has voted to allow for the demolition of several buildings on Waites Wharf to make way for a proposed 150-room waterfront hotel. The board this week approved in a 5-3 vote the demolition of five buildings listed as “significant contributing structures” in the federally recognized Southern Thames […]

BROOK PARK, Ohio — Demolition has begun on a shuttered hotel with a sordid history. The former Travelodge Hotel, which was home to a highly publicized raid by Brook Park and Cuyahoga County authorities in 2016, has long been a a thorn in the city’s side dating back to at least 2014. Demolition crews unceremoniously […]

The demolition of an overturned cargo ship off the coast of Georgia is halfway done, and officials say the job has several more months to go. A towering crane pulls the engine room section away from the remains of the capsized cargo ship Golden Ray on Monday, April 26, 2021, offshore of St. Simons Island, […]

The infamous Palm Beach mansion where Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted many of his young victims has been reduced to rubble. The demolition came 5 months after Florida real estate developer Todd Michael Glaser inked a deal to buy the waterfront property for $18.5 mil. He vowed to obliterate the 14,000 square-foot mansion. Proceeds from the […]

LITTLE VALLEY — It will be at last six months before the open-air demolition of the main plant process building will begin at the West Valley Demonstration Project. Officials from CHBWV, the contractor involved in the cleanup at the nuclear cleanup site in Ashford, briefed Cattaraugus County lawmakers on the planned demolition on Wednesday. The […]

After a snowy March kept crews from working on the new Pikes Peak Summit Complex for all but five out of 20 days, workers are on a tight timeline to open the new attraction by the end of May as planned. “Any weather delays will impact that,” said Jack Glavan, manager of Pikes Peak. But […]

“It does bring me great joy every day to be able to see this,” Teresa Robbins, deputy manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration Production Office, told reporters. She explained that NNSA plans to use the Biology Complex site in the future for a new lithium processing facility. It will replace Y-12’s current one, which […]