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A judge halted the imminent demolition of the dilapidated California Theatre building downtown that was supposed to make way for a 40-story residential tower. The 2,200-seat theater, at Fourth Avenue and C Street, closed in 1990 and has fallen into disrepair. Developers Sloan Capital Partners bought the property in 2006 and said the theater was […]
An upcoming condo development across from the Chicago History Museum took a key step forward as demolition crews were given the all-clear to remove a pair of buildings at the southwest corner of Clark Street and North Avenue. The exterior of Old Town’s landmarked Village (previously Germania) Theater will be spared.City of Chicago Commission on […]
A man was seriously injured Tuesday when he fell through the floor of a dilapidated Brooklyn building while rooting around for construction materials, authorities said.Firefighters scrambled to free the 33-year-old treasure hunter from the crumbling basement of the Rutland Road building at Brooklyn Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens after the floor gave out at 12:30 p.m. […]
Shortly after JPMorgan Chase announced that they would be demolishing their Midtown Manhattan headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, preservationists, architects and critics railed against the move on social media and through letters to the city. Now, the U.S. and New York/Tri-State chapters of non-profit preservation group Docomomo have teamed up for a joint effort to […]
The Old City building ravaged by a fire last week will stand for a while longer to give investigators an opportunity to search the wreckage for clues to the blaze’s cause, officials said Sunday. Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections reported that work at properties adjacent to 239 Chestnut St. needed to be done before […]
From: architectsnewspaper.com Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) 270 Park Avenue, an international-styled glass-and-steel tower in Midtown Manhattan that Ada Louis Huxtable once described as one of the “sleek and shiny temples” to business, is now scheduled for demolition. As first reported by the New York Times, the building’s […]
Ronald Freeman, a foreman/operating engineer for Brandenburg Industrial Service Company, the company doing the demolition, said they anticipate possibly being done before June. The actual demolition started last Friday and the crew members will be working eight hours a day, five days a week. “You’re not constantly wrecking,” Freeman said about the process of demolishing […]
(Paterson Press) PATERSON — A city contractor is ready to begin the demolition on an abandoned dye factory that looks like ruins from a war zone. The Leader Dye complex has been vacant for more than two decades and the eyesore looms over in a residential neighborhood near Madison and 3rd avenues. Some of the […]
BLYTHE TOWNSHIP — A man was badly injured after a roof collapsed on him during a home demolition in Schuylkill County. It happened around noon Sunday along Silver Creek Road in Blythe Township near New Philadelphia. The man was part of a two-person crew working to tear down a home. According to the fire chief, […]
Houston Business Journal Late last week, a jury awarded around $200,000 in a legal dispute related to the former Houston Chronicle site downtown. The lawsuit was filed in Harris County District Court in April 2016 over the planned demolition of the former Chronicle building. The plaintiff, Theater Square LP, claimed the demolition would interfere with […]