Demolition News

SUNNYVALE — Underneath the bulging eyeball that overlooks a road into Blue Bonnet Mobile Home Park, a sign advises: “Slow Down.” But the pace of activity under its watchful gaze has been anything but slow over the past year, as one resident after another has packed their bags and departed, leaving behind memories of neighbors […]

Demolition was expected to begin next Tuesday on a South Loop building that records and historic information show once served as a bootleg brewery for Al Capone. A demolition permit was granted for July 11, giving the building’s current owner permission to demolish buildings in the 2200 block of South Lumber Street, near West Cermak […]

RACINE — The demolition and cleanup of nearly 27 acres of old, industrial Downtown properties will soon commence to create a clear redevelopment area and refurbished riverfront. The demolition bids for the Water Street Redevelopment Area — including what was once called Machinery Row — were opened Friday morning. The low bidder was Veit & […]

BENWOOD, W.Va. The rising prices for recycled metal could lead the demolition of an abandoned bridge in West Virginia. The Intelligencer of Wheeling reports the privately-owned Bellaire Bridge has been the subject of a long-running legal dispute. Benwood officials have wanted the bridge to come down. But the owner has declared bankruptcy. The city has […]

Demolition work began on a major freeway connector ramp in Long Beach, part of the replacement project for the aging Gerald Desmond Bridge. Several large excavators equipped with jackhammers and claws are tearing down the elevated ramp that connects eastbound Ocean Boulevard to the northbound 710 Freeway. The demolition marks the project’s final long-term road […]

Oklahoma City: First National Center is turning into one of the more unique redevelopments in the history of downtown, with demolition underway on part of the complex while construction has started in the same space. Demolition of the 1971 First National annex facing Broadway has been underway for the past couple of weeks, but until […]

SOUTH BEND — Demolition began Friday on Corby Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the University of Notre Dame’s campus. A new hall of similar design is planned for the site. The circa-1895 yellow brick building, just west of Sacred Heart Basilica, is the traditional home of Congregation of Holy Cross priests who live […]

AKRON, Ohio – A working group of government and environmental officials on Thursday unveiled the second phase of a four-part plan to remove the Gorge Dam from the Cuyahoga River in Summit County. The cooperative agreement will create a plan to manage the removal of tons of contaminated sediment that has accumulated behind the dam […]

NEWS FLASH – IT FINALLY CAME DOWN!! TAMPA — Stripped to the girders, the old Bromley office building looked about as substantial as fish bones on a dinner plate. But the 5-story structure proved Sunday it still had a surprising amount of fight left in it. A demolition team had planned to weaken the structure […]

QUINCY — Adams County says the Quincy engineering firm hired to oversee the demolition of various buildings in the footprint of the new county jail was negligent and breached its contract in its services to the county. The county filed a third-party complaint Tuesday in Adams County Circuit Court against Poepping, Stone, Bach and Associates, […]