Published: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:04 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:04 p.m.

LAKELAND | A demolition company has been chosen to tear down the Lincoln Square apartments to possibly make way for new single-family homes.

Lakeland city commissioners will vote at their meeting at 9 a.m. Monday on whether to spend $836,000 to hire Lakeshore Environmental Contractors, a Birmingham, Ala., company, to demolish the building and remove any asbestos from the area.

If commissioners approve hiring the company, demolition and asbestos removal is expected to begin June 15 and last about 90 days at the units at 805 W. Seventh Street, said Tamara Sakagawa, the city's community redevelopment agency manager.

Sakagawa said the city has a budget of $1.2 million for the project, but she expects it to be below $1 million even after an environmental consultant is hired to oversee the asbestos removal.

Demolition was set to occur in spring 2012, but initial bids ranged from $1.4 million to $5 million. City officials canceled the bid because of the high cost and hired a consultant to rewrite the bid specifications.

The 120 concrete apartment units, which cover roughly five acres, were built in the 1920s. The ground floor of each unit has a kitchen and living room. Upstairs, there are two bedrooms and a bath.

The property has been vacant for more than a year.

After demolition occurs, Sakagawa said, city officials plan to have several meetings with members of the neighborhood about the future of the property.

She said Friday that single-family detached homes would be a nice addition to the neighborhood.

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WATERVLIET, N.Y. -- Progress is finally being made in the demolition of St. Patrick's bell tower after days of delays.

The 150-year-old tower had proven tough to tear down, but Thursday, a heavy crane is doing the work that cables couldn't do. The crane tore off chunks of the brick tower, one load at a time. Progress is slow, but, right now, almost the entire top portion of the tower is gone. Onlookers gathered at the site all day, still in disbelief.

"I think it's awful. I do think it could've stood for a lot longer. I that there's a good reason for it because it is about 160-years-old or something and there's not very many buildings in the world built like that, said Watervliet resident Ryan Hanley.

Steven Powers of Nigro Companies tells the NEWS CENTER the demolition crew will return Friday at 7 a.m. to continue the teardown. He says it will likely take them through the better part of next week to demolish the entire tower.

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An effort by city lawmakers to at least temporarily hold off on demolition of the Trico complex, a nationally designated historic structure, isnt enough, preservationists said Wednesday.

The Common Council unanimously agreed this week to impose a moratorium on issuing demolition permits for the former windshield wiper factory until Jan. 1. Two weeks ago, the Council rejected an effort to designate the complex as a local landmark.

It doesnt mean much, said city Preservation Board member Tim Tielman. It is window dressing. It would have been much better to get it designated a local landmark.

The Preservation Board had appealed to the Council to designate the Trico complex a local landmark, which would have given the board greater oversight over plans to demolish or re-use the building.

The measure, the second of its kind to come before the Council, failed in a 4-4 vote.

Though Ellicott Council Member Darius G. Pridgen voted against the designation, he sponsored the demolition moratorium and said that if plans to redevelop the complex get under way before the end of the year, he would be open to extending it.

If there is a developer that can be found for Trico, that can do what some folks claim can be done, there is time to do it, Pridgen said.

Principals with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, which has development rights to the sprawling complex at Washington and Goodell streets, were opposed to the landmark status for Trico, but said they would work with Preservation Buffalo Niagara over the next six months to find a reuse for the building.

Hopefully we can build upon the leads they might have had before and help make that happen, Matthew K. Enstice, president and CEO of the Medical Campus, said Wednesday.

The moratorium lengthens that period to seven months and formalizes it beyond a handshake agreement, Pridgen said.

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Demolition is underway at an iconic building in Fulton. The former Nestle plant has been vacant since Nestle consolidated its chocolate production operations a decade ago. But as our Katie Gibas reports, with the demolition comes hope for a new era.

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FULTON, N.Y. -- For a century, this building was a staple of the Fulton community. It was one of Nestle's many chocolate manufacturing plants.

"We had the roasters at building 58 and you could smell chocolate in the air," said Fulton Mayor Ronald Woodward Sr.

In its prime, 1,500 people worked at the factory in Fulton.

"It was huge. You can't talk to a family here that some of them didn't work there. Whole generations worked there. My family worked there. I was the last man out of there. My brothers worked there. My father worked there. My mother worked there," said Woodward.

When it closed a decade ago, about 450 people lost their jobs.

"From a financial impact, it was bad for morale number one. But they provided $22 million a year in payroll. People were paying mortgages, debts, groceries and gasoline," said Woodward.

Now that icon in the community is being torn down to make way for new development.

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Morrill Hall on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

EAST LANSING (WWJ/AP) - Demolition of a 113-year-old building on Michigan State Universitys campus is on hold after a fire burned through its roof.

The fire was reported Wednesday evening at Morrill Hall on the north end of campus. It took crews about two hours to extinguish the fire. No one was injured and the building was empty at the time.

East Lansing Deputy Fire Chief Troy Brya saidthe fire appears to have started in debris on the roof, part of which collapsed.

Demolition work started on the buildingin March and was expected to be completed in August. Its unclear how long of a delay the fire will cause to construction dates.

Nicknamed The Coop, Morrill Hall once was a dormitory for female students and also housed home economics classrooms. In the 1930s, it was converted to classroom space and named for Justin S. Morrill, a former U.S. senator who pushed to establish land grant universities.

In 2010, the schools Board of Trustees approved a plan to take down the building and move the departments housed there into a Wells Hall addition and a renovated Old Horticulture Building. Demolition and walkway construction will cost about $1 million, MSU said.

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