Demolition News

Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct to be demolished in stages (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

CAIRO — Two 1940s-era public housing complexes are slated to be torn down this spring, but the ongoing partial federal shutdown will delay the selection of a general contractor to oversee the multimillion-dollar project in Cairo. The deadline for general contractors to submit sealed bids to the Alexander County Housing Authority has been extended from […]

The modernist Union Carbide building at 270 Park Avenue, due to be replaced by a new 70-story skyscraper, is now one step closer to coming down: 6sqft reports that demolition permits for the Midtown skyscraper have officially been filed with the Department of Buildings, signaling the start of the lengthy process to demolish the old […]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A worker died Wednesday after part of a building collapsed on him, police said. Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said the incident happened about 5 p.m. at a vacant industrial building at 2742 Grand Avenue in the city’s Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood. A private demolition company was working at the building when the […]

WILMINGTON, Del. Jan 12 (CBS) — A 64-year-old man from Florida died after a cable snapped and struck him on a demolition site in Wilmington Friday. Police were called to the old GM Plant at 801 Boxwood Road shortly after 4 p.m. The initial investigation found Atlantic Coast Dismantling, a Boston based company, was contracted […]

An announcement on when the Tappan Zee Bridge will be knocked down is expected any day. Grand View-on-Hudson Mayor Larry Lynn spoke with contractors about the plan to use explosives to take down the old span State contractors spoke with the mayors of Hudson River towns this week about their plan to use explosives to […]

ORMOND BEACH — Workers are preparing a Florida hospital for demolition more than a year after it was destroyed by Hurricane Irma. Florida Hospital Oceanside spokeswoman Lindsay Cashio told The Daytona Beach News-Journal that preparations have begun but the demolition won’t be complete until summer. The hospital on Florida’s Atlantic Coast sustained wind and water […]

The Historic District Commission has approved demolition of a 68-year-old building on West Elizabeth Street to make way for Chemical Bank’s new downtown Detroit headquarters high-rise. Plan includes 185,000 square feet of office, 308 parking spaces, 7,500 square feet of retail Kirk Pinho/Crain’s Detroit Business The demolition of the building at 25 W. Elizabeth St. […]

Ten men were digging out a rowhouse-size hole Friday morning in North Philadelphia when the building next door collapsed, momentarily trapping two of them under rock and rubble, authorities said. The two unidentified injured workmen were taken to Hahnemann University Hospital, where their conditions were not immediately available. They had been preparing the foundation for […]

Detroit — Controversial meetings between city officials and specific contractors to discuss federally funded demolition work before public bidding didn’t violate written rules, but they weren’t transparent and gave the impression of “preferential treatment,” an independent investigation has ruled. The findings from an investigation of Detroit’s Office of the Inspector General, which spanned more than […]