Demolition News

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Crews on Monday tore down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017, using heavy machinery to raze the small building even after some families sought to preserve the scene of the deadliest church shooting in U.S. history. A judge cleared the way last […]

The City of Mobile has offered a sneak peek of what the new arena will look like after it is completed in 2027. Populous, a global design firm, has been working on the plans for two years. The goal was to design the outside of the building with a Mobile flare, keeping with the French-style […]

Enough of the heavily damaged Realty Tower is expected to be demolished by Aug. 2 to allow the nearby International Towers and Stambaugh Building in downtown Youngstown to reopen by that day, a city official said. Charles Shasho, the city’s deputy director of public works, said he was given the Aug. 2 date on Tuesday […]

The house where Marilyn Monroe was found dead in 1962 has been designated a California landmark, ending a year-long battle over its demolition. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to make the property in Brentwood, located at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, a Historic-Cultural Monument, saving it from demolition, according to an archived […]

CASPER, Wyo. — Ghosts from one of Casper’s early businesses reappeared after decades behind a stucco façade during preliminary demolition on a building near downtown. The single-story building at 136 West B St. was the home of Title Service Inc. and had reportedly been abandoned for many years. Sections of the building’s collapsing roof could […]

The three smokestacks at the former Hutchings Station power plant in Miamisburg are scheduled to be demolished Friday morning, and area residents looking to catch a glimpse as they come down have a few options for good locations. “The dam on the opposite side of the river of the plant is one of the best […]

The US Department of Labor (DoL) has cited a Chicago-based subcontractor, alleging that the company knew that it was exposing its employeers and others to “the serious dangers of asbestos” at one of its work sites in Waukegan, Illinois. The Supreme Court blocked OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard for Covid-19 vaccination madates. Following a federal investigation, […]

Crews are expected to use controlled explosives on Saturday to remove the massive piece of the Key Bridge that is atop the Dali cargo ship and free the vessel that has been stranded in the Patapsco River since it struck and collapsed the span on March 26. Officials did not say how soon after the […]

Demolition is underway on one of the few East Coast buildings designed by the late Anthony Lumsden, a colleague of Cesar Pelli and former member of the “LA 12,” a group of California-based modernist architects. Contractors are taking down the Bard Building, a five-story structure that Lumsden designed for Baltimore City Community College when he […]

As George Washington and Benjamin Franklin walked the streets of what is now Old City Philadelphia in the 1780s, they presumably could have found a reason to travel north from Market Street along 2nd or 3rd Streets. After about a 10-minute stroll, had they turned onto Vine Street, they would have encountered a pair of […]