A couple walks past as an excavator works to demolish the former Gainesville Police Department headquarters on Thursday.

The official demolition of the Gainesville Police Department Headquarters began Thursday morning.

The building, at 721 NW Sixth St., is being razed to make way for a brand new facility. According to GPD spokesman Officer Ben Tobias, senior members of GPD including Chief Tony Jones were on hand to see the first bricks fall.

It was actually quite emotional for the officers that watched the first strikes of the excavator, Tobias said. There are a lot of memories from that building. A lot of us were sworn into service inside the old station, but now were one step closer to making new memories in a new building.

Originally, a renovation was planned and began in late 2010, but code compliance and asbestos issues made a complete demolition and rebuild more cost-effective.

The building has been vacant since then, and Chief Jones said hes felt the impact of the displacement.

Our police officers and staff have been displaced for over 2 years, and they had to look at the old building just sitting there empty, Jones said. Now we all can see progress towards a brand new building for both us and the community. Now its real. Now its tangible.

The demolition should take about four weeks, Tobias said, with the site prep for new construction to follow.

The Gilbane Building Company is overseeing the construction, and Cross Construction is handling the demolition.

According to Tobias, Gilbanes Project Executive Joe Frisco said safety and being good neighbors will be the top priority as the project moves forward.

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Plans to demolish a 19th Century vicarage in Stoke-on-Trent have been recommended for approval.

Ceramics firm Steelite International wants to knock down the Heaths building in Newcastle Street, Burslem, as part of a 12m expansion of its factory.

Planners at the city council said the benefits of the plan outweighed any impact upon Stoke's heritage assets.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and more than 330 people, who have backed a petition, are among the objectors.

The demolition of the 1858 building is among three applications for the site which have been recommended for approval, subject to conditions.

The plans will be considered by the Labour-run council's development management committee on 5 February.

HLF invested 300,000 to help refurbish the old vicarage in 2008.

The fund's Reyahn King said it had invested more than 8m in regeneration schemes in Burslem and would have "serious concerns about the authority's commitment to local history" if the demolition was approved.

Meanwhile, objectors who have backed an online petition say the Heaths building has "significant historical importance" and should be preserved.

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A state appeals court ruled today in favor of the St. Louis Preservation Board in its denial of a demolition permit for the historic Cupples 7 building in downtown St. Louis.

The ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis does nothing, however, to rehab the building, which has a gaping hole its roof and an interior in ruins.

Still, the decision stalls the owner's effort to tear down the structure. It is the only unrenovated building in the Cupples complex west of Busch Stadium.

In its 11-page ruling, the appeals court affirmed the decisions by the Preservation Board and Betsy Bradley, the city's cultural resources officer, to deny a demolition permit.

Cupples 7's owner, Ballpark Lofts III, had sought the permit, contending that the building is too deteriorated to save.

Bradley and the Preservation Board determined that while Cupples 7 has significant damage, it remains reasonably sound.

The owner had planned to renovate the century-old warehouse as lofts. But the housing market fell apart and Ballpark Lofts made no Cupples 7 repairs as the building deteriorated.

Condemned by the city in 2008, Cupples 7 remains in shaky condition. Its outlook grew more tenuous after no one responded by the citys deadline of Jan. 10 to submit a renovation proposal. City officials hope to save the building and note that historic preservation tax credits could be available to help fund a rehab.

But such a project could cost tens of millions of dollars and would have to include payment of back property taxes owed by Ballparks Lofts III.

The appellate ruling upheld a decision last June by St. Louis Circuit Judge Steve Ohmer

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