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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Residents in South Buffalo’s Seneca Babcock neighborhood are celebrating a legal victory against a company they have been battling for years over environmental issues. A state judge granted an injunction against Battaglia Demolition, Inc. shutting down the Seneca Street facility, as requested by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a […]
A few months after shutting down the St. Johns River Power Park, the site’s two 464-foot-tall cooling towers are ready to come down. The city has approved a permit for demolition of the towers, which is expected to cost $14,511,047. JEA spokeswoman Gerri Boyce said she does not have an exact date for the demolition. […]
Baltimore’s housing department has imposed a $464,000 fine on the owner of a historic building in West Baltimore that city officials say was demolished without government permission. The former St. Vincent’s Infant Asylum, which had been converted into apartments and was vacant, was torn down in February. The city’s Department of Housing and Community Development […]
The DuPont nylon yarn plant at Martinsville, Virginia is two blocks long, from one to six stories in height and is completely air conditioned. It went into operation in 1941 and its nylon yarn output doubled that of the company’s first nylon plant at Seaford, Delaware. The success of stockings was so crucial to DuPont, […]
The walls of the former General Motors assembly plant in Janesville will start to fall this week, Janesville officials announced. In a news release Monday morning, the city of Janesville announced that demolition of the 4.8 million-square-foot former auto plant was slated to begin “on or around” Monday. The city said Commercial Development Company, the […]
UMaine trustees OK spending $10M on demolitions in push to downsize By Nick McCrea, BDN Staff • January 29, 2018 4:23 pm The University of Maine System is rolling out the bulldozers to rid itself of run-down and underused buildings and reduce its oversized footprint. During its regular meeting on Monday, the board of trustees […]
Court OKs demolition of Hollywood building for Frank Gehry project, dealing a blow to preservationists David Zahniser LA TIMES Developer Townscape Partners is looking to build a mixed-use development designed by architect Frank Gehry at 8150 Sunset Blvd., shown in a rendering. A three-judge panel has handed a defeat to historic preservationists in Los Angeles, […]
Even while Cal State Monterey Bay is in a growth mode, people on campus are nearly as excited about buildings coming down as they are about the ones going up. Abandoned military buildings – decaying reminders of the campus’s Fort Ord legacy – are being removed. While many of the former military buildings have been […]
As morning traffic rushed north and south on W. 65th Street, a “high reach” demolition machine began to dismantle the top floor of the Swift & Co. meatpacking building, long an eyesore and hazard for the Stockyards neighborhood. The $3+ million demolition, under the management of the local B&B Wrecking and Excavating, will tear down […]
It took months to prepare for the demolition of a Fort Worth high rise, but only took 10 seconds to see the building fall to pieces. A Dallas Demolition crew in a parking lot about 100 feet away from Fort Worth’s Westchester Plaza pushed the button at 8 a.m. Sunday to set off nearly 300 […]