Demolition News

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, […]

JANESVILLE – The city has been awarded $500,000 in state money to help demolish the long-vacant General Motors factory and prepare the huge site for potential redevelopment. The money from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. will go toward the costs of razing six buildings on the 114-acre assembly plant area, where thousands of workers once […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The two cooling towers at the St. Johns River Power Park on Jacksonville’s Northside imploded right on time in just 12 seconds Saturday morning, leaving a cloud of dust and an end of an era. The dynamite — 1,500 pounds of it — was placed inside 3,800 holes for the big boom […]