MILLBROOK – A significant phase in the development of the new Bennett Park in Millbrook is underway as asbestos abatement and demolition have begun at the old Bennett College campus and asbestos abatement has begun at the Thorne Memorial School Building. The work under the aegis of the non-profit Millbrook Community Partnership is moving toward […]
Heavy equipment may soon begin tearing down an 80-year-old South Carolina public housing complex where two men died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly maintained heater. Scientists are conducting environmental tests on the land around Allen Benedict Court in Columbia. If those tests are OK, crews could begin tearing down buildings this […]
Capone bought the house for $40,000 in 1928 and returned to it often. The gangster nicknamed “Scarface” died at the home in 1947 from a heart attack Getty Images The South Florida house that gangster Al Capone owned for nearly two decades, and died in, is facing demolition plans. The Miami Herald reported Thursday […]
Demolition work is ramping up at 343 Madison Avenue, site of a 1,050-foot commercial supertall in Midtown East. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Boston Properties, the 754,120-square-foot structure will yield 748,618 square feet of office space, 2,130 square feet of retail space, and 2,372 square feet of subterranean circulation paths to Grand Central Terminal and the future […]
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Salvage crews Monday began cutting apart the final two sections that remain of a cargo ship the overturned along the coast of Georgia nearly two years ago. Demolition of the South Korean freighter Golden Ray has been underway since November, when workers began using a towering crane straddling the […]
Seaside Heights today will begin demolishing a rusting four-story steel framework that for more than a decade has thumbed its nose at the wild and woolly shore resort’s effort to remake itself as a more upscale destination for tourists and year-round residents, the mayor said. The Borough Council is scheduled to hold a special meeting […]
The old Northwood Centre will be bulldozed to make way for a new police department headquarters. The old Northwood Centre is being bulldozed starting today, and the location between North Monroe Street and Tharpe Street is being readied for redevelopment. The space once housed Tallahassee’s first indoor mall. More recently, it was used by state […]
Firefighters rescued two workers from the debris in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon. The ceiling and the walls collapsed on workers during a building demolition. Two workers at a Brooklyn construction site were trapped for over an hour Friday afternoon after a partial collapse of the building brought the roof down, fire officials said. The two-story […]
BILLINGS — The Lazy KT Motel in downtown Billings will be demolished, after the Billings City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve the property owner’s ask of the Billings Industrial Revitalization District to foot the bill. After the Council approval, the Billings Industrial Revitalization District (BIRD) will pay $98,776 for a pre-demolition inspection, asbestos abatement, […]
SEATTLE — A Seattle Fire spokesman said a construction crew was demolishing a building at Third Avenue and Columbia Street when a wall began to overhang onto Third Avenue and was inching toward power lines used by King County Metro Transit around 3:30 p.m. The Seattle Department of Transportation closed Third Avenue between Columbia Street […]