World Demolition Summit 2012: David Sinclair
David Sinclair, Safedem talks about the "Redevelopment of Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA". Topics include: Central State Hospital (CSH) Reuse Initiative Executive Summary The CSH Campus - History and Layout The Walker Building Hazardous Materials Abatement Facade Retention System Partial Demolition Recycling Education and Skills Training
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Bournemouth IMAX demolition
Contractor Interserve and formwork specialist RMD Kwikform work with 777 demolition to demolish the IMAX theatre in Bournemouth making way for a fantastic community space
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Demolition of Latham Circle Mall continues Wednesday, March 13, 2013 to make room for new addition to the mall in Latham. (J.S.Carras/The Record)
LATHAM While customers perused products at JCPenney's and Lowe's, demolition of the center portion of Latham Circle Mall began Tuesday and continued Wednesday.
Despite the nearby demolition, JCPenney's and Lowe's will remain, said Sara Wiest, Colonies public information officer. After Schenectady-based Jackson Demolition completes removal of the mall in the next month or two, Massachusetts-based Grossman Development Corp., LLC will begin construction of the Shoppes at Latham two outdoor shopping centers, a 190,000-square-foot space, and a smaller, 51,000- to 52,00-square-foot space.
We want to get this building free and clear, said Mark Hebert, vice-president of development for Grossman. We would like to start construction on (the shoppes') footings sometime this summer.
The two new buildings will be further back from Loudon Road than the center of the mall is currently, eliminating parking on the back while creating more parking in the front, Hebert said. The buildings will face Loudon Road.
The demolition is bringing down a mall that has stood at the location for more than half a century. Since the early aughts, however, tenants have slowly vacated the space among them, a Gold's Gym, the Malt River Brewing Co., and a Burlington Coat Factory. It now retains only its original anchor store, JCPenney, which does not allow access to the mall's interior, and a more recent tenant, Lowe's, which occupies a structure no longer connected to the mall interior.
The most recent tenant to leave was Regal Cinemas, which pulled out in February citing a steady attendance decline caused by the 2011 construction of a state-of-the-art cinema in Clifton Park. The developer would like to maintain the theater complex, Hebert said, and is searching for a new operator.
Originally constructed in 1957 as the Latham Corners Shopping Center, the mall was renovated several times throughout its history. In 1977, a notable renovation transformed the space into one of the nations earliest fully-enclosed and temperature-controlled indoor shopping malls.
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Demolition of Latham Circle Mall under way, new shopping centers planned
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Demolition continues on the center portion of the former Latham Circle Mall on Wednesday. (J.S.Carras/The Record)
LATHAM While customers perused products at JC Penney's and Lowe's, demolition of the center portion of the defunct Latham Circle Mall began Tuesday and continued Wednesday.
Despite the nearby demolition, JCPenney's and Lowe's will remain, said Sara Wiest, the public information officer with the town of Colonie. After Jackson Demolition, of Schenectady, completes removal of the mall in the next month or two, Massachusetts-based Grossman Development Corp., LLC will begin construction of the Shoppes at Latham two outdoor shopping centers, a 190,000-square-foot space, and a smaller, 51,000- to 52,00-square-foot space.
We want to get this building free and clear, said Mark Hebert, vice-president of development for Grossman. We would like to start construction on (the shoppes') footings sometime this summer.
The two new buildings will be further back from Loudon Road than the center of the mall is currently, eliminating parking on the back, while creating more parking in the front, said Hebert. The buildings will front on Loudon Road.
The demolition is bringing down a mall that has stood at the location for more than half a century. Since the early aughts, tenants have slowly vacated the space among them, a Gold's Gym, the Malt River Brewing Co., and a Burlington Coat Factory. It now retains only its original anchor store, JCPenney's on the north end, which does not allow access to the mall's interior, and a more recent tenant, Lowe's, which occupies a structure no longer connected to the mall interior.
The most recent tenant to leave was Regal Cinemas, which pulled out in February, citing a steady attendance decline caused by the 2011 construction of a state-of-the-art cinema Clifton Park, which pulled many of the Latham cinema's movie-goers. The developer would like to maintain the theater complex, said Hebert, and is searching for a new operator.
Originally constructed in 1957 as the Latham Corners Shopping Center, the mall was renovated several times throughout its history. In 1977, a notable renovation transformed the space into one of the nations earliest fully enclosed and temperature controlled indoor shopping malls.
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Demolition makes way for the new Shoppes at Latham
Demolition of the 12th Ave. Bridge in the Wares Creek neighborhood began Thursday as part of a project to improve water flow and avoid flooding. The first couple days of demolition will focus on the removal of an architectural feature of the historic bridge which will be salavaged and reused on the new bridge. TIFFANY TOMPKINS-CONDIE/Bradenton Herald
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BRADENTON -- Demolition of the historic 12th Avenue bridge in the Wares Creek neighborhood began Thursday as part of a project to improve water flow and avoid flooding.
This is the second of three bridges to be rebuilt as part of a sister project to the $51.8 million Cedar Hammock-Wares Creek Flood project.
"It is all an integrated concept as part of the dredging of the creek," engineering section manager Jim McLellan said. "Without improvement to the bridges, it would create a 'pinch point.' By replacing them with structures that have more carrying capacity, it increases the creek's capacity to carry water, avoiding flooding."
The first couple of days of demolition will focus on removing the handrail of the historic bridge, which is being salvaged and reused on the new bridge.
"We have to maintain a component of the existing bridge, and the handrail is the easiest and the most visible," McLellan said.
Construction of the new bridge is scheduled to be completed by August. Work will then begin on the 14th Avenue bridge. Combined with a drainage upgrade, the work on the two bridges is expected to cost $2.4 million.
Half of the funding for this project is being provided by a grant from the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The rest has
been funded by a low-interest loan acquired by the city from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
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September 11 2001 events: Nuclear demolition evidence, The WTC explosions turned thousands of tons of steel into fluffy microscopic dust. In this four hour v...
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Pantano Union Pacific Railroad Bridge Demolition (March 2013)
Time lapse video shows demolition of the old Pantano Union Pacific Railroad bridge on Interstate 10 about 30 miles east of Tucson, Arizona. This was the seco...
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AMES, Iowa --- State regents Wednesday approved a University of Iowa plan to enter into a public-private partnership for the construction of new student apartments to replace Hawkeye Court, despite one graduate students concerns that it will result in much higher rents.
The state Board of Regents, at a meeting in Ames, approved the UI agreement with Dallas company Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions to provide apartment housing for students. The vote also gives approval for the demolition of portions of the 45-year-old Hawkeye Court apartment complex.
The university will enter into a 41-year ground lease with the company, which will be responsible for construction and operation of 270 apartment units with 444 beds. The new complex will serve primarily students with dependents, graduate students and international students, as Hawkeye Court currently does, officials said.
UI graduate student Brian Prugh lives at Hawkeye Court with his wife and two children. He pays $435 per month for a one-bedroom apartment -- 30 percent of the salary he earns from a half-time teaching appointment. He told the regents he worries the new apartments will mean much higher rent for students who cant afford it, as the company will charge market rate.
What needs to be replaced is affordable housing, he said. The current plan may successfully replace the current buildings, but it does not replace the function these buildings serve within the community.
UI officials said its unclear what the rents will be, but they said a new one-bedroom on a bus line but not directly near campus might run $750 per month in the Iowa City market.
Its unfortunate there will be an increase for students living at Hawkeye Court, officials said, but this partnership is the best option available to the UI. The university would likely spend more money than a private company if the UI were to build the new apartments. Offering new housing with rates comparable to the current affordable levels of Hawkeye Court just cant be done, Vice President for Student Life Tom Rocklin said.
These apartments are cheap because they need a ton of work and theyre paid off, and we cant replicate that somewhere else, he said. Its something that pains me but I think this is in fact our best option now.
The university and Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions will establish a committee to review rental rates, officials said.
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GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK -- Steve Redding was upset Tuesday as a battering ram smashed into the concrete base of the Cyclorama building, which until five years ago housed a huge circular painting depicting Confederate Gen. George Pickett's "charge" against Union troops July 3, 1863.
"I'm not happy about this demolition at all. I was against it from the beginning," said Mr. Redding, 59, who lives a few miles west of here and visited the old Cyclorama building many times before it closed in 2008.
"I understand the Park Service says this is progress, but if they'd spent a few million on repairs to the old building, they wouldn't have had to spend $40 million on the new visitors center," where the painting is now housed.
Asbestos removal at the Cyclorama building -- a round structure that opened in 1962, in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Gettysburg battle -- began in late February. Actual demolition began Saturday and will take another few weeks to complete.
On Tuesday, the structure appeared to be about 75 percent demolished, with bulldozers and heavy trucks hauling away large chunks of concrete.
The Park Service wants to restore the historic Civil War battlefield as closely as possible to the way it looked July 1-3, 1863, when thousands of Northern and Southern troops died or were wounded in what became the pivotal battle of the war. That meant the old, empty Cyclorama building had to come down.
It sits on North Cemetery Ridge, which was near the center of the Union army's battle line July 2-3, 1863. It's part of an area of high ground that formed a long, curving battle line called the "fishhook," where Federal troops set up their defenses and held off repeated Confederate attacks, finally forcing them to retreat back to Virginia that July 4.
The site looks down on what is known as the "high-water mark" of the battle, the closest the Southerners came to overrunning the Northern defenses.
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had moved his troops into Pennsylvania in late June 1863, aiming for a knockout battle that he hoped would force President Abraham Lincoln to end the war and grant independence to the South.
Mr. Redding said, "I understand that federal officials want to restore the battlefield, but then why don't they get rid of the McDonald's fast-food place, and the Friendly's, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken," restaurants that are located nearby on Steinwehr Avenue, just 100 yards from the old Cyclorama?
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COLUMBIA SC An early stage of demolition already has started at the historic Palmetto Compress warehouse even as preservationists rally to save the structure. And owners said Tuesday they arent counting out a student housing project on the site, despite an Ohio developer recently withdrawing plans for one.
Edwards Communities Development Co. last summer proposed a $40 million project that would house 800 students at the site at the corner of Blossom and Huger streets. Columbias Design Development Review Commission shot down the plan in December but had granted the company a rehearing that was supposed to happen Thursday.
Meanwhile, the company withdrew its application as preservationists mounted a campaign garnering more than 1,000 signatures on a change.org petition to save the building on the site from demolition.
That does not stop (Edwards Communities) from going back with perhaps either the same plan or a modified plan, said John Currie, a Columbia lawyer and one of the buildings owners. Its not like you only get one bite at the apple.
So, I think it overstates it to say that they have determined not to pursue a student housing project. I think it means that they simply withdrew that particular application.
Efforts to reach Edwards Communities officials about their plans Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Regardless, Currie was adamant that the nearly century-old, 320,000-square-foot warehouse that currently serves as a storage facility will be demolished.
We have a contract with a demolition company, he said. They have begun to do work in there. The building is being emptied, probably as we speak, as the tenants are moving out. Were moving forward with the demolition of the building. However, Mayor Steve Benjamin said Tuesday afternoon that hes confident the warehouse will be saved.
Were close to a resolution, Benjamin said, declining to provide specifics. I fully expect that this community will come together and work to keep our historic treasure.
Benjamin slowed the project last year when he interceded as a member of City Council to have the building declared a city landmark.