Comer Homes hopes the removal of the hated '3M building' will be complete by the spring

Demolition of the towns most notorious eyesore will start this month and is expected to be completed by next spring.

The regeneration of Bracknell town centre took another massive step forward after plans to replace Winchester House with a 19-storey block of flats, a gym and shops were approved by Bracknell Forest Councils planning committee last Thursday.

The old 3M building has been empty since the technology company moved out in 2003 and had attracted anti-social behaviour.

The derelict tower will be demolished and replaced with a block of modern apartments.

Councillor Colin Dudley, chair of the boroughs planning committee, said: Were very excited at the prospect of getting rid of that eyesore at last. This is going to start to give the people of Bracknell their pride back in the town centre.

If Winchester House goes its going to be the catalyst of new tenants coming to the town centre.

Whenever we talk about the regeneration people look to Winchester House as an indicator of how its going, its like a bad penny that keeps turning up.

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Robert Sheppard, principal engineer at Comer Homes which owns the block, said: We have already appointed a demolition contractor and the keys were handed over on Friday we expect internal soft strip demolition works to commence in May.

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It was unclear why the brownstone dislodged.

Ruby Branch, who owns the house at 3028, said she had noticed nothing unusual about her property's facade.

"There wasn't no problem until they started doing this," Branch said.

Mulderig said ordinary wear and tear combined with the demolition crew's activities likely contributed to the incident.

Property records indicate the house was built in 1915.

"It was probably weak, and when we went and cut the wall loose, it became even more weak," he said.

The city will repair the brownstone facades of the neighboring rowhouses at no cost to their owners, Mulderig said.

"We're certainly going to make the neighbors on both sides whole," he said.

From the street, the house at 3026 had appeared stable, if clearly abandoned.

But it had stood vacant for decades, neighbors said.

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Demolition of Bruce Field first step to new multipurpose field

By Keith McCord

April 30th, 2014 @ 6:49pm

KEARNS Bruce Field was once the focal point of family activities

But, with no public funding, the weeds grew as fast as the graffiti. Instead of drawing people for sporting events, it became a place that attracted crime.

On Wednesday, heavy equipment was brought in to begin the demolition of the dilapidated park at 4290 W. 4865 South in hope of bringing new life to the area.

The 4-acre parcel was the home to baseball leagues dating back to the 1950s.

This is a park where children of all ages first swung a bat at a ball and first caught their first pop fly, and you can hear the echoes of that today in the ghosts of the past, said Patrick Leary, Salt Lake County township executive.

The field dates back to World War II, when soldiers at Camp Kearns used to play on the land. In 1965, the property was donated to the Kearns Pony League.

Things have changed over the years. As the popularity of baseball leagues has dwindled, the park has fallen into disrepair and become a magnet for neighborhood crime.

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'Rosie the Riveter' factory demolition: Willow Run, the iconic factory used by legions of 'Rosie the Riveter' female workers during WWII, is set for demolition. Is it too late to save this piece of women's history?

The wrecking ball is poised to demolish the iconic Willow Run plant in Michigan, which produced not only bombers for World War II, but also inspired the iconic symbol of female empowerment and American wartime unity, "Rosie the Riveter." Its a good time for parents to remind kids that Rosie the Riveter is not only a Halloween costume.

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Long before there was a Lean In philosophy from Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg (who has a net worth of more than $1 billion, according to Forbes) or the queendom of Oprah (who has a net worth of $2.9 billion, according to Forbes), there were everyday women sweating in factories to support Americas war effort while their men were an ocean away, waiting for the munitions and planes they labored to produce.

Before even discussing the fact that the factory where women played a crucial role in the war effort is about to be demolished, I feel the need to back up and explain the significance of what were really talking about here.

As kids typically learn around the 8th grade, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, much of the male workforce went off to war as America became engaged in World War II.

That meant precious few able-bodied men were left at home to man the factories and produce munitions and aircraft to supply the war effort.

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