Demolition News

THURMOND, W.Va. — Residents of one historical community in Fayette County plan to present some more options during an upcoming meeting regarding the National Park Service’s proposal to tear down 35 deteriorating and excess buildings within the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. The NPS will host the meeting this Thursday, Jan. 11 at […]

The Idaho home where four college students were murdered last year was destroyed on Thursday, overruling the objections made by victims’ families. Last year, the stabbings of four University of Idaho students rocked the small college town of Moscow, Idaho. School leaders called the three-story house, which was torn down in under two hours, a […]

NEW ORLEANS — Action may be coming on the infamous Plaza Tower. The City of New Orleans has called for demolition of the building in Downtown New Orleans. Mayor Latoya Cantrell has called it one of the “dirty dozen” blighted buildings in New Orleans, and finally, the problematic Plaza Tower may be coming down. Mayor […]

PAWTUCKET – George’s Games, Music, and Billiards, a fixture at 101 Main St. overlooking Slater Mill since 1947, is coming down. The two-story, 48,612-square-foot building, which underwent a renovation for an addition in the 1960s, is on an island of land sandwiched between Main Street, Broadway and School Street. It is part of the larger […]

Demolition work is underway at 275 Atlantic Avenue, the site of a 15-story jail complex in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by HOK and developed by the NYC Department of Design and Construction, the 339-foot-tall structure will span 712,150 square feet with a capacity of 1,040 inmates, as well as 30,000 square feet of community facility […]

TLANTA (AP) — A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta. Susan Hodgson said in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that she found a pile of rubble in place of what used to be her longtime family property when she returned from […]

The reactor building, which once housed the nuclear reactor at Vermont Yankee in Vernon, is the only building still standing on the site. NorthStar Services has been decommissioning the former nuclear power plant for four years. Work continues on dismantling the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. While only the reactor building remains […]

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (KATV) — Arkansas Tech University will soon be demolishing two historic buildings: the Administration and Tomlinson buildings. In a special meeting called Monday, the ATU Board of Trustees voted to demolish the two structures built in the 1930’s. Facility director Drew Dickey said the cost to update these buildings are estimated to be […]

The owner of the “Superman Building” in Providence has announced plans to restore — and demolish portions of — the building this morning. The Industrial National Bank Building at 111 Westminster Street has been vacant since 2013 when Bank of America shuttered its doors at the location. As GoLocal reported in 2019: GET THE LATEST […]

A building consulting firm is recommending the demolition and redevelopment of Yamacraw Village, after it calculated over $51 million of damage. GPB’s Benjamin Payne reports. Moldy walls, broken windows, leaky pipes and possible asbestos contamination are among a myriad of unsafe living conditions spelled out by consultants in a recent assessment of Savannah’s Yamacraw Village […]