Demolition News

| Demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct is reaching Pioneer Square, where crews will work within 10-to-20 feet of buildings…. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times) More Demolition at the Alaskan Way Viaduct is approaching its most suspenseful point, when teams will demolish the four blocks of road decks next to Pioneer Square buildings […]

Preservationists are still stewing over plans to raze a historic building downtown to make way for a high-rise Margaritaville resort. Preservationist group Historic Atlanta last week sent a letter to City of Atlanta officials demanding a “stop-work order” be issued to prevent the demolition of 152 Nassau Street, where the first hit country music record […]

Three companies — one of which performs the lion’s share of asbestos removal from blighted homes across Detroit — have been suspended indefinitely from the city’s demolition program and are the subject of an investigation examining possible conflicts of interest. The Detroit Office of Inspector General is probing whether the owner of a Warren-based abatement company, […]

  ST. LOUIS — Demolition of abandoned, broken buildings is on the rise. The number of properties held by the city’s land bank is down. Contractors are, for the most part, following a new, safer demolition protocol. A year after Mayor Lyda Krewson outlined a plan to address vacancies, data shows an uptick in demolition […]

A demolition company may not have had the proper permits when it brought down a brick wall, damaging a home next door, on Sunday (Screenshot/6 ABC).    This photo is related to the incident.  The photo headlining the article is a file photo It could have been a disaster. But luckily, no one was injured […]

 Picture  Credit Bill Bortzfield / WJCT News One way or another, the distinctive orange-colored metal roof covering the Jacksonville Landing will likely get a second life after a contractor starts demolishing the mall in a few months. The $1 million demolition job is expected to start in the fall and finish by the end of […]

DALTON — One of the costliest projects in recent Dalton history just got a little more so. Though demolition of the old Dalton High School looks complete to those passing by on First and Field streets, the town still is dealing with a 45-ton problem. The contract awarded to knock down the long-vacant 60,000-square-foot building […]

Demolish Bldgs. 10, 11, 32, 118, 233MA, 318MA, and 338 Camp Grayling Training Center Grayling, Michigan as the bid headline reads! Camp Grayling was founded in 1913 when local lumber baron, Rasmus Hanson, donated over 13,000 acres to the State of Michigan for military training. Camp Grayling has since grown to 147,000 acres that spans […]

The Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved a $27.5 million contract for demolishing the shuttered Baltimore City Detention Center to make room for a proposed mental health and substance abuse treatment center for inmates. Gov. Larry Hogan in 2015 closed the decrepit jail facility that dates to the 19th century. He said Wednesday […]

Texas appears to have ramped up it’s bridge replacement efforts this spring. In just the past week, 14 new bridge replacement bids have been posted by the TXDOT.  Including culverts etc there are more than 5,000 within that state and many are more than 40 yrs old. PA has for some time maintained a steady […]