#TalkThursday: Senate probes, demolition or public good?
Rappler talks to Sen Antonio Trillanes IV about what the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee hopes to achieve in the Binay probe.
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SJE - 7th day of demolition - 2nd floor removal of 1954 addition
This was taken on the morning of the 7th day. The focus today is to remove as much material off site and complete the school #39;s demo.
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Demolition crews moved in Thursday to begin taking down the Negro Community Centre in Little Burgundy.
Earlier this week, Quebecs Court Of Appeal rejected a bid by Montreals Southwest Borough to save the building.
The developer who bought the building in September went to court and was granted permission last Friday to begin taking down the dilapidated building, arguing it was dangerous and too costly to repair.
The borough was trying to delay the demolition, saying its engineers deemed the building to be safe, and also on the grounds of its historical significance.
The borough issued a release this week saying it was dismayed the courts allowed the developer to bypass the boroughs wishes to preserve its heritage.
Built in 1891, the building had been vacant since 1989. It used to offer programming such as day camps, adult education courses, sports and dancing for Montreals black community as well as the community at large.
In the spring, one of the Little Burgundy landmarks walls caved in, forcing the centres board to file for bankruptcy.
The land is in an institutional zone, meaning for now, whatever goes up in the buildings place must be in the same community-centre vein.
The borough says it will not change the zoning unless the developer comes up with a plan that will satisfy all involved parties.
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Demolition continues Monday at Chattanooga's former Harriet Tubman housing complex in East Chattanooga.
Hundreds of East Chattanooga residents applied for demolition jobs on the Tubman project, which promised living-wage jobs to a neighborhood where people needed work.
A total of 14 East Chattanooga residents were hired as laborers by the demolition contractor, Environmental Abatement of Henderson, Tenn. The workers were paid $18.75 an hour.
Two later quit and four were fired because they failed to make daily production goals, said James McKissic, director of Chattanoogas Department of Multicultural Affairs.
He said city officials pulled from the hundreds of East Chattanooga applicants to replace those six workers.
Environmental Abatement also hired three East Chattanooga residents for specialized work such as heavy equipment operators. One of them also quit, McKissic said.
The destruction of Tubmans 440 units plus the 188 units demolished at Maurice Poss Homes in 2005 represent more than 600 units of public housing torn downd in Chattanooga in less than 10 years.
Half the buildings at the former Harriet Tubman public housing development home to generations of Chattanooga's poor are gone now.
And an iron claw is crushing through the brick structures that still stand.
A stream of water is used to reduce the dust particles in the air.
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THE demolition of the old Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) building along N. Bacalso Ave. was properly documented and no private interests benefited from it.
This was CCMC ad hoc committee chief Councilor Mary Ann delos Santos said after the City Council called on the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to conduct an investigation to determine who had made money out of the scrap metals from the three-story facility.
The move of the council stemmed from the column of Sun.Star Cebu columnist lawyer Elias Espinoza last week where he said that a City Hall official got money from the demolished building.
He said businessmen from Manila offered to pay P2.5 million to allow them to demolish the old CCMC and they will get the scrap metal in return.
Delos Santos challenged Espinoza to name names so that the matter will be settled.
I dont want this administration to fail and be tainted with insinuations of an irresponsible writer. What he wrote is unfounded and uncalled for. I challenge him to come out in the open. Take the podium at the council and names names if he is privy and witness in the changing of hands in terms of money, she said.
Aside from asking the anti-graft office to investigate, the council had called for an executive session on Dec. 4 with Espinoza, Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) Chief Engr. Jose Marie Poblete and representatives of the Commission on Audit (COA) to shed light on the matter.
It was COA who issued the clearance to the City to demolish the CCMC while DEPW supervised the demolition, which was done by a contractor.
Yesterday, delos Santos showed to reporters all the documents covering the demolition, which includes COAs clearance, the inspection report of COA and the inventory of the materials recovered.
Everything really is documented, she said.
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COST CONCERNS: Dunedin stadium costs are now $260 million and rising.
Dunedin's mayor has said the city council only included an option to demolish the city's stadium to shut down "a lunatic fringe".
In an interview with Mary Wilson from Radio New Zealand, Dunedin mayor Dave Cull said demolition was included in a review of stadium funding, ownership and operation "to put to bed the frequent and strident claims of a lunatic fringe".
Cull described the opposing group as "a small vociferous band of critics all the way along through this process who have said it would be much better to knock [the stadium] over".
"So, we said 'okay, we'll look at that option, we'll cost it, and that should put it to bed once and for all'," he said in the interview.
As it turned out demolition proved unworkable economically, Cull said.
City councillors are to gather for an extraordinary meeting on Monday to discuss its recommendations out of the review, including one that ratepayers stump up 18.1 million extra over the next 10 years to keep the arena afloat.
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Dunedin City Countil chief executive Dr Sue Bidrose is recommending another $1.81 million from ratepayers annually for 10 years to enable the stadium to operate on a financially sustainable basis.
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Annie Z. Yu, The Republic | azcentral.com 3:42 p.m. MST November 20, 2014
Demolition of Chandler's biggest long-time eyesore Elevation Chandler began on the morning of November 20, 2014. The razing should take about 24 hours so the structure should be fully on the ground by the end of Friday. Then it will take construction crews about 2-4 weeks to fully clear the area.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
The dismantling of one of the Valley's iconic images of the Great Recession, a partially built hotel in Chandler, began Thursday.
Construction crews began razing the skeletal structure of Elevation Chandler, which has stood in clear view of drivers along the Loop 101/Loop 202 interchange for nearly a decade.
The unfinished building was a symbolic reminder of the recession to every freeway commuter and visitor to the popular Chandler Fashion Center.
"These are vestiges of the (financial) crisis and a reminder of one, that we went through this crisis and two, how complex some of these projects really are," said Mark Stapp, executive director of the Master of Real Estate Development program at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business.
Hines, a Phoenix real-estate firm, finally succeeded in turning prime piece of property around with plans for offices, apartments, retail shops and a hotel. A crowd of officials and residents gathered for the ceremony Thursday and to watch the long-awaited demolition begin.
"It's a great occasion for Chandler to get rid of this eyesore and have something new and improved on the site," Mayor Jay Tibshraeny said after he donned a hard hat and used an excavator to begin demolition of the building.
He added, "Yeah, that was kind of fun."
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Demolition has begun on the former site of the ABC Brisbane headquarters at Toowong to make way for a $420 million three-tower residential project.
The site, abandoned by the national broadcaster in December 2006 over cancer cluster concerns, is being cleared ahead of construction for proposed development "Grace on Coronation".
Sunland bought the Toowong property for $20 million in 2013.
For the site, they have proposed three residential towers comprised of 486 apartments and eight riverfront villas, 635 car parks and 7,300 square metres of landscaped public parklands, allowing public access to a section of the Brisbane riverfront which has been privately owned for more than 160 years.
It was designed by Iraqi-British architect Dame Zaha Hadid to resemble flowers in bloom, however, it has already been likened to the shape of champagne flutes.
The 1.5-hectare site is the second Brisbane project for developer Sunland Group, which is also behind the 40-storey Abian residences in the Botanic Gardens and the landmark Q1 tower on the Gold Coast.
The proposed development also includes the preservation of the heritage-listed Middenbury House, which was built in the 1860s and played host to the Prince of Wales in 1920.
It was also used for a function in November 1959 to officially celebrate ABC's first television broadcast in Queensland.
However the rich history of the site extends beyond landmark celebrations.
Between 1994 and 2006, 18 women who worked there developed breast cancer.
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Kevin Pyne and Roger Cotton - Demolition Man
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