Demolition News

DETROIT (FOX 2) – For the neighbors living in the shadow of the Detroit incinerator, it’s a day that couldn’t come soon enough. The long-despised facility is to be demolished, the mayor said, following more than 30 years of fraught operations and 750 violations of pollution emission standards in the final five years of running. […]

cal-poly-pomona-tower-credit-tom-zasadzinski.jpg The soon to be demolished CLA building with fencing at Cal Poly Pomona March 16, 2022. (credit: Tom Zasadzinski/Cal Poly Pomona) Demolition on the exterior of the university’s CLA tower, which is covered in limestone and is visible from the 10 and 57 Freeways, is scheduled to begin May 23. Demolition on the interior […]

FLINT, MI — Flint’s plan to start an aggressive demolition program aimed at tearing down abandoned homes and businesses in the city could have an unintended consequence — displaced rats, possums and other nuisance animals that have taken refuge in buildings and overgrown lawns littered with trash. Mayor Sheldon Neeley told members of the City […]

Winston-Salem police arrived at the scene at 4:07 p.m., police said. Demolition crews found the body while they were tearing down the vacant apartments at that site. The apartment building had been vacant for a substantial period of time, police said. Homeless people have used the vacant apartment for shelter. Investigators haven’t identified the person, […]

Boston 25 News Staff Mon, March 28, 2022, 7:07 AM·2 min read   An investigation is underway after part of the Government Center Parking Garage on Congress St. collapsed Saturday evening, killing a construction worker. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced Monday morning that train service is suspended until further notice in the area near […]

Lyndon German The battle to prevent Second Baptist Church from being demolished continues, as activists plan to rally at 13 W. Franklin St. beside The Jefferson Hotel on Friday. A coalition of activists is rallying from 6 to 7 p.m., boycotting the hotel and its plans to tear down the historic site in favor of […]

Mohamed Hadid‘s incomplete Bel Air mansion has sold at auction 10 years after he first started the project.  The structure sold for $5 million to developer Sahara Construction Co., Variety‘s Dirt reports. In agreeing to purchase the property, Sahara must pay to have the home demolished within nine months.  The 1.2 acre property was first […]

The Daytona Beach Shores City Council on Tuesday is slated to vote on the second reading of a development agreement that provides incentives to the property’s owners, New York-based Acres Capital LLC, to demolish the deteriorating remains of the once popular hotel and redevelop the site into a new hotel-condominium complex. The vote initially had […]

Demolition began Friday on Quinlan Castle on a hilltop overlooking Birmingham’s Southside and will continue through the weekend. The dome roofs were removed from the turrets Friday afternoon by lifting them off with steel girders placed through the turret windows and strapped to a crane lift. Demolition of the rock exterior walls and turrets will […]

One of the excavators tearing apart the former Journal Star building fell into the basement Monday, but the operator was able to escape uninjured. Lincoln Fire and Rescue crews were called to Ninth and P streets at about 10:30 a.m. on a report of a piece of construction equipment that had fallen into a hole […]