by Jennifer Lindgren, WKYC-TV, Cleveland

CLEVELAND -- Demolition has begun on the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade.

The house is being torn down as part of a deal that spared Ariel Castro a possible death sentence. He was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years.

One of the women imprisoned there, Michelle Knight, showed up early Wednesday before the demolition began. She made a brief statement and released some balloons.

A crowd of onlookers clapped as the demolition began.

Castro, who was sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years, without the possibility of parole repeatedly denied during his sentencing that he had tortured Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight after he kidnapped them between 2002 to 2004, holding them captive in his home until Berry managed to escape and alert a neighbor May 6.

Castro, 53, pleaded guilty to 937 charges, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping, to avoid the death penalty.

The house on Seymour Avenue is not only condemned, it represents the horrors the three survivors faced for 10 years.

"We didn't want some kind of gruesome, macabre shrine, if you will, that would get gawkers and curiosity seekers," said Joseph Frolik with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.

McGinty "wanted the property to come down and to come down quickly," Frolik said.

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The 1,000-foot perimeter safety zone for Saturday's demolition of the Pacific Gas & Electric steam power structures that critically injured a spectator was not large enough, a demolition expert said Sunday.

The early morning implosion of the long-abandoned plant's twin boilers sent steel and concrete debris into a crowd of onlookers 1,000 feet away in the Lowe's parking lot on Coffee Road.

The contractor didn't have a safety zone large enough," said Herb Duane, a consultant for hundreds of demolition and implosion projects around the world. "When you have a strong force and you're knocking down steel, it will shoot out much farther than if you did a regular demolition."

Duane, president of Duane Corp., in North Conway, N.H., said there is no industry standard for a safety zone, but 1,000 to 1,500 feet from the blast is common. The size of the zone is decided by the contractor, he said.

The most seriously injured spectator Saturday was flown to a Fresno hospital where one of his legs was amputated. He had not been publicly identified by late Sunday, although Bakersfield police said he was 43.

The 6 a.m. explosion sent debris across Coffee Road and a canal bordered by two chain-link fences, peppering spectators and vehicles.

Four other people suffered minor injuries.

Duane said similar demolitions usually occur at off hours in order to keep the number of spectators low.

"The less people around the less chance of a problem," he said.

Cleveland Wrecking Co., of Covina, was the prime contractor. Subcontractor Alpha Demolition hired Demtech Inc. to take down the structures.

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Published: Monday, August 5, 2013, 7:12p.m. Updated 2 minutes ago

Allen Enterprises & Recycling LLC has filed for bankruptcy.

The business is owned by Rodney Allen of Connellsville, owner of a building currently under demolition at 105-107 W. Crawford Ave. in Connellsville.

Michael C. Gallo, an attorney with an office in Murrysville, filed the Chapter 7 petition last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh.

Gallo said the filing has nothing to do with the company doing the demolition of the Connellsville property.

(The filing) will afford Mr. Allen the opportunity to reorganize Allen Enterprises, Gallo said during a telephone conversation on Monday afternoon. But it won't affect the demolition.

Workers were at the site on Monday afternoon. The section of the building housing the infamous sky toilet has been taken down. The toilet is sitting in the grass next to the demolished section of the structure.

Last week Joshua DeWitt, nephew of Rodney Allen, said the demolition would include all but the first floors of the structures. Plans would call for the refurbishing of the remainder of the buildings and include the installation of a green roof.

Allen was ordered to have the building down by Aug. 7. However, Tom Currey, Connellsville's code and zoning officer said there are no problems with a partial demolition of the structures as long as the amended plans are approved and the demolition of everything except the first floors is completed by Aug. 7.

According to Connellsville's zoning ordinance for commercial buildings along Crawford Avenue, buildings must be at least two stories high or be at least 24 feet high. A single-story structure with a facade reaching that height would be allowed, if approved. Plans must be submitted to the city's planning commission. If approved by the city planning commission, the county must then also approve.

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Closed to vehicular traffic for nearly two decades and to pedestrians for at least one, Narberths Rockland Avenue Bridge is finally coming down for real, this time.

Narberth Borough officials announced that some of the preliminary work for demolition of the span over the tracks used by Amtrak and SEPTAs Paoli-Thorndale regional rail line began July 30.

It should be noted, this is a separate project from the long-anticipated replacement of the North Narberth Avenue bridge in Narberth's downtown. Closure of that imporant link to Lower Merion Township for demolition and construction of a new bridge is expected to begin in 2014.

Additional preparatory work for the Rockland Avenue Bridge demolition will continue over the next few weeks, leading up to actual removal of the bridge span during the weekend of Aug. 23-26.

With final work to clean up and restore the approach areas, the project is expected to be completed by Sept. 20.

In an interview, borough manager Bill Martin said work began on time last week and is running on schedule.

The Rockland Avenue Bridge is one of Pennsylvanias many orphan bridges, built by now-defunct agencies such as railway companies. Responsibility for these structures has fallen to the municipalities in which they sit. In the case of the Rockland Avenue bridge, it was determined that that responsibility lies with Narberth Borough.

As long ago as 2009, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission had ordered that the defunct bridge had to come down; demolition was originally projected for the following summer. However, working through the process to determine funding responsibilities and coordinate with Amtrak has pushed the project back to this summer. The good news is that, while Narberth will pay a share of the costs, the great majority of funding for the project will come from state and federal sources.

With the project now about to start, a detailed schedule of work has been announced. To avoid disruption of train service, Martin said some of the work involved in the demolition project will take place during nighttime hours.

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The explosive demolition of a portion of the vacated Dayton Daily News building and a building next door could come within weeks, city staffers said Monday.

A large student housing development will be built at the former Dayton Daily News site at Fourth and Ludlow streets in a $22 million project. But to make that happen, the modern portion of the newspaper building must be demolished as well as the Schwind building immediately to the north.

Contractor Steve Rauch Inc. plans to use Dykon Explosive Demolition of Tulsa, Okla., to take the buildings down, said Andrew Steele, a fire prevention specialist with the Dayton Fire Department. The department must approve a permit for the demolition, Steele said. The permit application is still being prepared, he said, but he expects to receive it within days. Steele said hell examine it to make certain it meets state requirements regarding the use of explosives in demolitions.

The last time explosives were used to demolish a downtown building was in 1999 when the Lazarus Building was taken down to make way for the Schuster Performing Arts Center.

The demolition is also now being coordinated with the Dayton Police Department and neighboring building owners, Steele said.

The city of Dayton has allocated $755,000 in city development funds to help offset developer Student Suites cost of asbestos removal and demolition of the Schwind Building. Also helping fund the new development is a $1 million pledge from Cox Media Group Ohio, owner of the Dayton Daily News.

As part of that agreement, Student Suites will preserve the small, historic bank-like Dayton Daily News structure, built in 1908 at the corner of Fourth and Ludlow. The bank building and a piece of the Fourth Street faade are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Student Suites officials have said they plan to have the housing complex open in August 2014 for the start of the next school year at Sinclair Community College.

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