Demolition News

Passersby near Auke Bay may have looked askance at the dredging going on in the shallow end of the harbor, curious what the end goal is. Wonder no more. The dredging of the inner basin of Don D. Statter Memorial Boat Harbor is the first part of a 3-year, $12 million dollar project by City […]

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A Detroit demolition group has allegedly demolished the wrong house for a second time, the city said on Wednesday. The Detroit Building Authority issued a violation notice on Wednesday morning to Adamo Group for a wrongful demolition. It was fist reported by the Detroit Free Press. According to the DBA, the contractor […]

NEW ORLEANS: Get used to the sight of the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel: It’s going to be looming over Canal Street well into next year. New Orleans officials said Thursday they don’t expect to recover two bodies trapped on the site until March and contractors won’t finish demolishing the building’s severely damaged top floors […]

                    Residents of Powelton Village — a tree-lined neighborhood of Victorian townhomes — watch ever-expanding Drexel University with a wary eye. “We are located near growing institutions and the most active commercial office market in the region,” said McCarty, who co-chairs the neighborhood group’s zoning committee. […]

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  The property tycoon father of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid has been ordered by a judge to demolish his half-built $100 million Bel Air mega-mansion, which has been dubbed the “Starship Enterprise”. Mohamed Hadid has been involved in a long legal battle over the palatial 30,000 sq ft residence after neighbours complained about its size. A judge in Los […]

The demolition includes a technique that requires hardening the existing 29-year-old building’s elevator shafts to create debris chutes to allow for easy removal of the stru NEW YORK CITY – L&L Holding Company, Maefield Development and Fortress Investment Group have begun the demolition of the former DoubleTree Hotel at the corner of 47th Street and […]

A chunk of wall from the former Vallco mall in Cupertino came crashing down on a busy street during demolition Thursday. Video of the incident shows construction crews soaking down a section of an upper-level exterior wall just before it separates from the structure and crashes down, coming very close to passing vehicles on Wolfe […]

  CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE The Chicago-based McDonagh Demolition was ordered to excavate a demolition site in the 13000 block of Maiden St. on Detroit’s east side on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. The order came after it was discovered the company filled several demolition holes across the city before fully removing all of the demolition debris, which is […]

SOMERS —  Crews on Tuesday, Nov. 5 began the demolition process at a home dangling over the edge above Lake Michigan in the Village and Town of Somers — working to beat Mother Nature to the punch, getting the demolition started with snow on the way. It was only a matter of time before erosion […]