Demolition News

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 […]

An Arkansas construction company’s social media post about demolishing “an entire neighborhood off the map of Little Rock” drew criticism this week from some who said the remark was insensitive. Greg Covey Construction LLC posted a photo of demolition vehicles tearing down houses in Little Rock’s Stifft Station neighborhood, saying that crews were “fixing to […]

  A proposal to demolish Columbine High School in response to a steady influx of visitors obsessed with the school’s dark past has sparked a backlash among those who survived the tragedy. In the decades since two gunman attacked Columbine High School, ushering in a new era in which mass shootings have become commonplace in […]