Demolition News

DETROIT – A secret witness for the FBI regarding Detroit’s demolition scandal is revealing himself for the first time and sharing his story with the Local 4 Defenders. Efforts to demolish vacant and blighted Detroit homes have run rampant with massive cost overruns and accusations of bid rigging. Now, for the first time, a contractor […]

FLINT, MI — Two buildings could be demolished and Buckham Alley reconfigured to facilitate the building of a new Hilton hotel. A proposal requesting two permits to renovate the long-vacant Genesee County State Savings Bank into a Hilton Garden Inn on Saginaw Street and reconfigure Buckham Alley was presented at an April 24 Flint Planning […]

The Canaveral Port Authority began Terminal 3 demolition to make way for $150 million Cruise Terminal. The Authority began the largest single construction project in its history as demolition of the port’s oldest cruise terminal began to make way for upgraded berth and a new parking garage. Demolition is expected to be completed by July […]

Demolition of Riverside Hospital Project. Bid Package 1: Demolition of Riverside Hospital – Estimate $1,400,000. Stationed only a block or so from the local police department in downtown Toledo remains a forgotten and fragmented structure formerly known as The Riverside Hospital. The hospital was opened in 1883 as a home for unwed mothers in the […]

Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped create the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Dozens of workers demolishing a plutonium processing plant from the 1940s have inhaled or ingested radioactive particles in […]

Canajoharie will receive $6 million to partly demolish a factory that was the heart of the village’s economy for decades but now is a crumbing hulk. The Restore New York grant announced Monday will cover planning, demolition and cleanup of the eastern portion of the sprawling Beech-Nut complex that is beyond salvage, and pave the […]

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, […]