Demolition News

The City of Detroit and Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration have announced a redevelopment scheme that is poised to destroy yet another iconic piece of our industrial and architectural history for minimal economic gain. Under the guise of 150 construction jobs that will undoubtedly go to suburbanites and the potential for an auto-supplier tenant that may […]

A portion of Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium is set for demolition in January as part of its multimillion-dollar upgrade project. The implosion of the west side is scheduled for Jan. 7, according to a university news release issued Thursday. The “Completing Reser Stadium” project will conclude a long-term Reser expansion/remodeling that began in 2005, while […]

  s Midland Public Schools board of education voted Monday night to approve an $83,900 bid from Bierlein Companies, Inc., of Midland to demolish the district’s State Street building, which is at the corner of State and Carpenter and adjacent to the MPS administration center where the meeting was held. The board approved the bid, […]

There is a $1.5 million pot of blight busting money coming to Butler County and while land banks around the state are lining up, officials here say not many jurisdictions have expressed interest yet When the state biennial budget passed, it allocated $150 million for commercial and residential demolitions and $350 million for brownfield remediation. […]

WILMINGTON OH — Demolition of the old Textron factory site — along South Nelson Avenue across from the city’s landfill — began in October. The work signals a beginning of the huge project involving upgrading/updating the city’s wastewater treatment plant through the new Ohio BUILDS water infrastructure grant program. The demolition subcontractor is Charles Jergens […]

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Bishop’s 4th Street Diner has been serving up food in Newport since 1967, but that could soon change. The long-time eating establishment is at risk of being demolished to make space for a convenience store. Plans have been submitted to the city to do so. Steve and Vicki Bishop own the […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Berkman Plaza II has a new demolition deadline: Sunday, November 14. Crews are working on prepping the building for implosion. So if you’re on East Bay Street downtown, you’re going to hear a lot of drilling going on as sandblasters make holes in the building’s concrete slabs, and bury explosive devices. […]

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 […]