Demolition News

“Control” is the goal with controlled demolition. It’s all about using the physics of the explosion and gravity, the understanding of the architecture and terrain and the art of experience to bring down the house — or skyscraper or ballpark or other structures. But control is not always possible. Just because you want a perfect […]

A woman was rescued from a partially collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa, Monday as the city was planning to demolish it. The woman, 52-year-old Lisa Brooks, poked her head out of a fourth-floor window Monday about 24 hours after part of the building crumbled. A family member said she hid under the couch when the […]

Demolition is underway on the final two buildings at 12 West 57th Street, the site of a 672-foot-tall residential skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and developed by Solow Management Corp., the tower will rise along Billionaires’ Row between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and West 56th and 57th Streets. Little exterior […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Following decades of serving up food in Colorado Springs, the iconic Sunbird Mountain Grill is being demolished. The demolition process started Monday just afternoon. The restaurant is just west of I-25 between Rockrimmon Boulevard and Garden of the Gods Road. The owner tells 11 News the restaurant was no longer […]

The demolition of the former OYO Hotel, located at 515 East Commerce, will soon commence. On Thursday, crews were in the process of removing beds, furniture and other materials from rooms. Squirrels’ Real Estate LLC purchased the property on Sept. 6, 2022 and after a 180-day wait, plans to redevelop the property are underway. Details […]

A demolition company began tearing down the remains of the former Valley View Center on Thursday after two firefighters were injured while trying to put out a blaze at the site earlier in the day, city officials say. The 300,000-square-foot building on the corner of Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway and Preston Road was planned to […]

GENESEE COUNTY, MI — The Genesee County Land Bank Authority is hosting a forum for demolition contractors who are interested in securing work on a massive demolition program that’s focused on the city of Flint.  The goal of the program is to demolish up to 2,000 blighted structures that are owned by the agency. The […]

OH: Dayton plans to spend nearly $22 million eliminating more than 1,000 nuisance properties in the next several years, but that would still leave hundreds of other similar kinds of eyesores that the city currently does not have the funding to tear down. Many residents and leaders can’t wait for the bulldozers to arrive in […]

One person died and at least three suffered injuries after an under-construction bridge collapsed in Kearney, Missouri. The incident occurred at 148th Street and Shady Grove Road, about 30 miles northeast of Kansas City, at 1:44 p.m. local time, Wednesday. The bridge collapsed when workers were pouring concrete on the bridge deck, according to the […]

Station Casinos parent Red Rock Resorts Monday began the demolition of its Texas Station and Fiesta Henderson properties in Las Vegas. These are two of three Station Casino operations that never reopened after Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered a blanket casino shutdown during the first wave of the pandemic. Red Rock announced in July that Texas […]