Demolition News

MILWAUKEE — Anthony Azarian of Azarian Wrecking was killed in a demolition accident in Milwaukee Monday afternoon when he and the skid steer he was operating fell down a seven-story elevator shaft. The tragedy was an eerie reminder of the 2000 construction fatality that occurred when Azarian’s uncle, also an Anthony, died at the bottom […]

The Lyndhurst Hotel has stood for 121 years in downtown Daytona Beach. But years of decay have left the structure in such bad shape that the city has condemned the property located near the northwest corner of Beach Street and Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard. In the early 1900s, the Lyndhurst Hotel was quite the posh […]

A date has been set to implode two massive cooling towers at the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset. The 500-foot-tall structures will be demolished April 27. The company that owns the property announced the date at a community meeting Tuesday. “They’re ugly. They’re not good for Somerset,” Somerset resident Ben Ortiz said of […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hundreds of residents are urging city leaders to pump the brakes on demolishing the Jacksonville Landing until they can show taxpayers a solid plan for what will replace it and who will pay for it. The office of Mayor Lenny Curry announced an $18 million plan to reclaim the property from Jacksonville […]

A demolition project is underway for six medical-services buildings on the campus of Medical Park Hospital in Winston-Salem. The two-story buildings are at 1900 Hawthorne Road, a 7-acre site adjacent to Bethesda Road and Maplewood Avenue. They served for decades as medical and office space for healthcare providers primarily affiliated with Novant Health Inc., Medical […]

Troubled demolition company applies for Union Square demolition job to make way for tech hub, prompting criticism Breeze National has been contracted to demolish 114 East 14th Street. (Sam Costanza for New York Daily News) A contracting company with a checkered past is slated to do demolition work on a controversial new Union Square project […]

Demolition crews are laying the groundwork to crunch the Alaskan Way Viaduct into little three-inch chunks, starting no later than Friday. The bulk of the project will be finished by June 1, so that 85-decibel pounding and rubble piles are gone before tourist crowds arrive. The far south decks, alongside diagonal Railroad Avenue South, might […]

(the picture above this article shows a demolition hole with a dead dog in it) Contaminated dirt was potentially used to fill demolition sites across Detroit and is the focus of a widening federal criminal probe of the city’s demolition program, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told the Free Press. The Special Inspector General […]

WOMELSDORF, Pa. — Demolition of the towering smokestack of a 92-year-old boot factory in Womeldorf began Tuesday morning. The towering 92-year-old structure was crumbling for years, but fallen bricks last month sparked concerns it might topple, officials say. On Jan. 23 a maintenance worker at the complex found bricks that had fallen off the top […]

Muskogee OK — Traffic on Independence Avenue between Main Street and Cherokee Street was blocked Wednesday during demolition of a 200-foot communications tower south of Independence. A giant crane held the structure while crews worked. CATHY SPAULDING/Muskogee Phoenix