Demolition News

FLINT, MI — Flint’s plan to start an aggressive demolition program aimed at tearing down abandoned homes and businesses in the city could have an unintended consequence — displaced rats, possums and other nuisance animals that have taken refuge in buildings and overgrown lawns littered with trash. Mayor Sheldon Neeley told members of the City […]

Winston-Salem police arrived at the scene at 4:07 p.m., police said. Demolition crews found the body while they were tearing down the vacant apartments at that site. The apartment building had been vacant for a substantial period of time, police said. Homeless people have used the vacant apartment for shelter. Investigators haven’t identified the person, […]

Boston 25 News Staff Mon, March 28, 2022, 7:07 AM·2 min read   An investigation is underway after part of the Government Center Parking Garage on Congress St. collapsed Saturday evening, killing a construction worker. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced Monday morning that train service is suspended until further notice in the area near […]

Lyndon German The battle to prevent Second Baptist Church from being demolished continues, as activists plan to rally at 13 W. Franklin St. beside The Jefferson Hotel on Friday. A coalition of activists is rallying from 6 to 7 p.m., boycotting the hotel and its plans to tear down the historic site in favor of […]

Mohamed Hadid‘s incomplete Bel Air mansion has sold at auction 10 years after he first started the project.  The structure sold for $5 million to developer Sahara Construction Co., Variety‘s Dirt reports. In agreeing to purchase the property, Sahara must pay to have the home demolished within nine months.  The 1.2 acre property was first […]

The Daytona Beach Shores City Council on Tuesday is slated to vote on the second reading of a development agreement that provides incentives to the property’s owners, New York-based Acres Capital LLC, to demolish the deteriorating remains of the once popular hotel and redevelop the site into a new hotel-condominium complex. The vote initially had […]

Demolition began Friday on Quinlan Castle on a hilltop overlooking Birmingham’s Southside and will continue through the weekend. The dome roofs were removed from the turrets Friday afternoon by lifting them off with steel girders placed through the turret windows and strapped to a crane lift. Demolition of the rock exterior walls and turrets will […]

One of the excavators tearing apart the former Journal Star building fell into the basement Monday, but the operator was able to escape uninjured. Lincoln Fire and Rescue crews were called to Ninth and P streets at about 10:30 a.m. on a report of a piece of construction equipment that had fallen into a hole […]

The City of Detroit and Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration have announced a redevelopment scheme that is poised to destroy yet another iconic piece of our industrial and architectural history for minimal economic gain. Under the guise of 150 construction jobs that will undoubtedly go to suburbanites and the potential for an auto-supplier tenant that may […]

A portion of Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium is set for demolition in January as part of its multimillion-dollar upgrade project. The implosion of the west side is scheduled for Jan. 7, according to a university news release issued Thursday. The “Completing Reser Stadium” project will conclude a long-term Reser expansion/remodeling that began in 2005, while […]