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15 July 2022

Balfour Beatty Communities in partnership with the United States Army at Fort Carson, CO, recently celebrated the start of a multi-phased development project planned for its privatised military housing community, Fort Carson Family Homes.

The July 13, 2022 groundbreaking event was held at the Cherokee Village West neighborhood where existing 60-year-old military housing units will be demolished to make way for the planned construction of new homes for active duty service members and families assigned to Fort Carson.

The event included remarks from Col. Nate Springer, Fort Carson Garrison Commander, and Balfour Beatty Communities representatives. Major General Omar Jones, Deputy Commander, US Army Installation Management Command, and Major General David Hodne, Fort Carson Commanding General, were also in attendance.

Rick Taylor, President, Facilities Operations, Renovations and Construction for Balfour Beatty Communities, said: The goal of the Military Housing Privatisation Initiative is to support our service members by providing a quality housing experience.

We are pleased to be working with the Army toward our common goal of bringing new, modern homes to Fort Carson and to continue delivering on our commitment to support active duty families.

The demolition is the first stage of a multi-phased project paving the way for new three- and four-bedroom townhomes that will feature open floor plans, generous storage, updated finishes and flooring, outdoor living spaces and energy efficient systems and appliances. A new playground and covered picnic area is also planned as part of the project.

To make this development project possible, Balfour Beatty Communities continues to work with the Army to secure private financing for Fort Carson and other Army properties in its housing portfolio.

Working with the Department of Defense, as part of the Military Housing Privatisation Initiative (MHPI), Balfour Beatty Communities has delivered more than 14,000 new homes and significantly renovated an additional 15,000 housing units. MHPI was enacted in 1996 to leverage private-sector capital and expertise to address the militarys backlog of deferred maintenance by expanding and upgrading housing, with predictable, stable long-term operating costs and performance. Balfour Beatty Communities will finance, develop, build, renovate and operate these projects for at least 50 years.

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NARRAGANSETT The state has put on hold demolition of the former Lighthouse Inn, the shuttered building in the Port of Galilee at the center of a dispute with Narragansett town officials and residents.

The Department of Environmental Management announced on Friday that it needs to conduct a hazardous building materials assessment before the structure can be razed.

This assessment will determine the presence and extent of hazardous materials, including potentially asbestos, which would need to be addressed for either demolition or redevelopment of the building and/or site, Terrence Gray, director of the state agency, said in a statement.Consideration of any changes to the leases at the site will be suspended until this assessment is completed and an accurate estimate of the cost of remediation is available.

The assessment is expected to take 90 days once a contractor is hired, Gray said. The results will be shared with Narragansett officials and posted on the DEM website for the public.

More: Critics say plans for Galilee's Lighthouse Inn look like a parking lot with token shops

The decision to put the project on hold is just the latest development in a long-running debate over the future of the former inn, which occupies a prominent spot off Great Island Road. The 5-acre parcel is owned by the DEM and leased to PRI X, thearm of theCranston-basedProcaccianti Companies thatonce operated the now-decrepit motel and stilluses the landfor parking.

Town Council members and other residents believe that the developerfell into breach of its lease when it stopped operating the Lighthouse Inn as a motel in 2017or, in their opinion, maintaining it properly. The criticsmet with the attorney generals officeto air their complaints, but there has been no actionso farby the office.

The DEM kicked off a process last year to solicit proposals for reusing the land, but the agency rejected all three proposals submitted. They included proposals from PRI X, for a strip of storefronts and the future construction of a hotel, and the Town of Narragansett, for a hotel with a restaurant, event space and gallery.

Instead of going forward with those plans, or another from iCellAqua for a wastewaterprocessing facility, the agency said it would maintain two of the three lots on the property for parking and take down the decrepit motel to make the site more attractive for future development.

Because of the propertys proximity to the Port of Galilee, the states largest commercial fishing port, the request for proposals highlighted the importance of supporting the fishing industry in any redevelopment proposal.

The DEM concluded that the Narragansett and PRI X proposals would not adequately benefit the fishing industry. The iCellAqua proposal was rejected because of uncertainty about what the company was planning.

Our focus and mission has not changed, said DEM spokesman Michael Healey. We still want to attract to this site a company that supports commercial fishing. At the same time, we respect the towns frustration about how long this process has taken. We want to work with the town as best we can.

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Doors to the former Parkland Memorial Hospital have officially closed, signifying the start of a 24-month process that will end with the building's complete removal from the site.

The facility welcomed its first patient on September 25, 1954, and kept its doors open for 61 years.

The former hospital also happens to be where President John F. Kennedy died, even though it was never designated a historical site. On August 16, 2015, the last patient was wheeled out of the old into the new and improved Parkland hospital.

Beck - EJ Smith, the joint venture handling the demolition, estimates that it will be completed by November 2023, accounting for removing hazardous materials on site and the piece-by-piece removal.

Grady Portis, Sr., 60, has a special connection to the building. Not only was Portis born in Parkland, but it was also his place of employment for a little over 20 years.

"It's a little sad that the building is coming down," Portis said. "There's so much history. I can remember my grandmother bringing me to the Emergency Department when I was just a kid and had gotten hurt. On my last birthday [in March], I went up to the Labor & Delivery area and thought 'this is where my life began!'"

Still Portis understands that no building can last forever.

Over the years, the building has become unsuitable for safe healthcare treatment.

Parkland's Senior Vice President of Support Services John Raish says it's time to "make room for a building that is projected to save the Dallas County taxpayers about $3.4 million in annual lease costs."

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With excavators and a bulldozer standing by, the developer planning apartments at the long-abandoned Ames headquarters in Rocky Hill has begun environmental remediation after buying the property for $2.3 million.

Were all eager for this. Theyre telling us they can do demolition in four months after remediation is done, and then start construction in the spring of 23, Mayor Lisa Marotta said Friday.

Rocky Hill struggled for years to find a major retailer or office management company interested in reusing the 250,000-square-foot building after Ames went out of business in 2002.

But the building and its 12 acres just deteriorated over the years; the massive parking lot is buckled and riddled with weeds, the office complex itself is marred by graffiti. Several years ago, anonymous YouTubers filmed inside and showed moldy walls, exposed wires, collapsing drop ceilings and decades-old work manuals scattered across floors.

The former Ames headquarters. Photograph by Mark Mirko | mmirko@courant.com (Mark Mirko/The Hartford Courant)

A lot of people in Rocky Hill have memories from here so many people worked at Ames, said Marotta, who spent a summer after high school as a data entry clerk in a third-floor office.

There were hundreds of people here, and they frequented the businesses and restaurants. They enjoy the stories of the past, but theyre really happy to see something new coming, Marotta said Friday in a tour of the site.

At its height, Ames had more than 55,000 employees. Its Rocky Hill headquarters housed as many as 1,000 merchandisers, accountants, logistics managers and others.

Despite a devastating 1991 bankruptcy, Ames still had 327 stores and more than 21,000 employees in 2002 when it announced it was going out of business. It was the last of the once-powerful New England discount department store chains; Caldor and Bradlees had already shut down.

The headquarters it left behind had once been a source of civic pride, but became a high-profile center of blight in the following years.

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Hamden-based Belfonti Companies LLC this month paid $2.3 million for the property, and plans to build 213 apartments one of the largest new residential projects in central Connecticut.

Rocky Hill wants the new residential complex to be the springboard for a larger-scale redevelopment that will stretch to the Connecticut River. The town has a history of being car-centric, and the vision for this section is heavy on wide sidewalks and bike paths to generate more of a community center feel.

The Main Street frontage will have a restaurant and commercial development, and Marotta sees it as part of a new village green and town center for Rocky Hill. The town expects to close the very end of Dividend Road so it can expand the small, triangular green there.

Gov. Ned Lamonts administration last year put $500,000 toward the environmental cleanup of the 1965 building and surrounding property. Marotta said the public-private partnership nature of the new development was key to starting progress.

Belfonti plans 93 one-bedroom apartments and 120 two-bedroom units, all at market rate except for 10% that will be reserved as affordable housing.

The companys plans will include about 11,000 square feet of commercial office space and 10,000 square feet of retail or restaurant space. There will also be a pocket park on the property.

Marotta said the town is looking to extend a new streetscape with sidewalks down Glastonbury Avenue, creating pedestrian access to the waterfront. The Ames property is about a 2-minute drive from the dock for the Glastonbury ferry, and the new pedestrian amenities will go a long way toward creating a town center thats linked to the waterfront, she said.

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ESPN Club at Disneys Boardwalk is now being demolished, after permanently closing earlier this year.

There are construction vehicles parked behind rolling planters on the boardwalk.

There is a crane and cherry picker.

The ESPN Club sign remains (for now), but crew members were removing other decorations.

They have placed tarp on the ground to keep the planks of the boardwalk protected.

As we watched, crews removed a light-up arch from the roof.

The crew members in the cherry picker removed the arch and secured it to the crane straps.

They lowered it to the ground.

It is set to become The Cake Bake Shopby Gwendolyn Rogers sometime next year. The BoardWalk Bakery will also close and become a sandwich shop.

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Stop & Shop contractors began the demolition of Vineyard Havens former Golden Dragon Restaurant on Wednesday. The Water Street building, which is immediately adjacent to Stop & Shop, and had been used for storage by the supermarket, was previously deemed unsafe following town inspections, and an order was given to either make the place safe or to raze it.

Stop & Shop opted to take the building down. Midday Wednesday, Lawrence Lynch workers in hardhats and Day-Glo greenish yellow jerseys started carefully removing large glass windows on the second floor. The town previously cordoned off the sidewalk by the building, first with traffic sawhorses and plastic barriers, and later with concrete blocks. A traffic officer stood on the scene Wednesday, guiding pedestrians away from the demolition site.

After its time as a restaurant, the building was acquired by Stop & Shop, and used as a warehouse.

Wednesday afternoon, the Tisbury Police Department released an advisory that Water Streets right lane in the direction of Five Corners will be closed from Wednesday through Friday.

Traffic will still be able to travel in both directions but please expect delays, the advisory stated.

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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) Crews are preparing former research reactor facilities for demolition announced Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management is working with its clean-up contractor, UCOR, to change the landscape and environmental impact of the laboratory in the upcoming months. The demolition focuses on eliminating risks, clearing land for research, and enhancing access to a component of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

According to the UCOR media advisory, the crews are closing in on the final stages of deactivation inside two former research reactors, the Bulk Shielding Reactor (Building 3010) and the Low-Intensity Test Reactor (Building 3005). The Bulk Shielding Reactor was built in the 1950s to be used for studying radiation shielding and the Low-Intensity Test Reactor facility operated as a training facility from 1951-1968.

We have been working toward the demolition plan of 3010 and 3005 since 2018, said Kent Ridenour, UCORs ORNL reactors project manager. To finally see the end in sight is impressive knowing the accomplishments and the challenges we faced over the last four years, but the craft crews and support groups worked together to make it possible.

Before filling the pool at the Bulk Shielding Reactor with a concrete mixture, crews removed asbestos from the facility to prepare the area for demolition.

There has been a lot of work involved with getting these facilities ready for demolition, said Nathan Felosi, OREMs ORNL portfolio federal project director. Its rewarding to see how that work is paving the way for ORNLs central campus area to look much differently by the end of this year.

Similar projects have also begun in the Oak Ridge Research Reactor. It was built in 1955 and operated until 1987 as an isotope production and irradiation facility. It was defueled in 1989, but in recent years, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management discovered a slow seep occurring in the reactor pool. The pool has been drained and crew have removed the highly irradiated components from the area.

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WASHINGTON Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (all D-Md.)urged the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) to pause its plans to demolish the existing Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge until an independent review is conducted to determine the feasibility and cost of repurposing it for recreational use. The lawmakers requested an independent study to ensure that this is not a wasted opportunity to provide taxpayers with bicycling and pedestriantransportation options at acompetitive costor potentially lower cost than demolition.

With the work on the new Harry W. Nice/Thomas Mac Middleton Bridge across the Potomac River proceeding rapidly, we urge the State to reconsider plans to demolish the old bridge, and halt any immediate efforts to do so. These plans should not proceed until a study can be conducted on the feasibility as well as the financial and environmental costs and benefits of converting the old bridge to a non-motorized trail that could be used by pedestrians and bicyclists,the lawmakers said.

An independent study, conducted by an entity with experience in similar bridge repurposing projects, is in the taxpayers interest to ensure that we are not wasting an opportunity to provide bicycling and pedestrian transportation options at a competitive cost or potentially lower cost than demolition,they continued.Premature demolition would squander the opportunity to repurpose the bridge if it is in the taxpayer and communitys best interest. We strongly urge you to undertake this basic due diligence before moving forward on demolition.

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Dear Secretary Ports:

With the work on the new Harry W. Nice/Thomas Mac Middleton Bridge across the Potomac River proceeding rapidly, we urge the State to reconsider plans to demolish the old bridge, and halt any immediate efforts to do so. These plans should not proceed until a study can be conducted on the feasibility as well as the financial and environmental costs and benefits of converting the old bridge to a non-motorized trail that could be used by pedestrians and bicyclists.

The demolition cost estimates made by the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) have ranged between $15 million and $23 million. Given that a new Environmental Analysis (EA) may now be necessary due to the modification of the demolition process to use explosives, which was not part of the original EA, an independent study to determine a common set of facts and costs would allow all parties the opportunity to consider the options for the use and ownership of the existing bridge.

An independent study, conducted by an entity with experience in similar bridge repurposing projects, is in the taxpayers interest to ensure that we are not wasting an opportunity to provide bicycling and pedestrian transportation options at a competitive cost or potentially lower cost than demolition. This study should include costs, safety and navigation impacts, and the potential economic and health benefits of alternative transportation and outdoor recreation uses. Premature demolition would squander the opportunity to repurpose the bridge if it is in the taxpayer and communitys best interest. We strongly urge you to undertake this basic due diligence before moving forward on demolition.

We would appreciate a response by July 22, 2022 regarding the States position and plans to secure an independent study and pause in demolition until this study is published.

Sincerely,

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) The only part of the East End United Methodist Church on Holly Street in East Nashville still standing are the stairs leading up to what used to be the main entrance.

The church was badly damaged in the March 2020 tornado. Members tried everything to save the original sanctuary of the 115-year-old church, but they discovered it would have been too expensive and dangerous, considering it was no longer structurally sound.

A church committee voted to rebuild in the same location, and for months crews have been demolishing the parts of the building that withstood the storm. By Thursday, July 14, the demolition was nearly complete.

We were able to move forward with trying to do a new plan for new construction; a building that does honor what was here before, but also significantly upgrades the accessibility of the building and just makes us take advantage of some of the advances in construction that have happened in the last century, the Rev. Scott Marshall-Kimball, the East End United Methodist Church pastor, said.

The new building will closely resemble the old; however, the design must be presented to the Metro Historic Zoning Commission for approval, which will likely happen in August, according to Marshall-Kimball.

Once approved and the church receives its funding from insurance and FEMA, crews can begin rebuilding the structure on Holly Street.

This church means a lot to the congregation, and its been their home for a really long time, but its also been a vital and wonderful piece of the community that just makes peoples days and lives better for its existence, so thats why we decided we really needed to be here at home on the corner of 13th and Holly Street, Marshall-Kimball said.

If all goes according to plan, he added, the church will reopen Christmas 2023.

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BATON ROUGE - Jefferson Terrace Elementary is being torn down. It's fenced off, but the demolition contractor says that didn't stop thieves from breaking in and stealing thousands of dollars worth of his tools and other equipment earlier this week.

Five suspects were arrested, but his valuable items have not yet been found.

Tim Mercer, the president of the Jefferson Terrace Civic Association, says the school board hasn't told him what they plan on doing with the property.

"It hasn't been very secure. People have been jumping the fences," Mercer said.

Mercer says residents can't wait until the school is demolished. He says they've complained, and this isn't the building's first break-in.

"It has been broken into once before. It's just an invite for people to come in," he said.

The civic association president says the school was closed two years ago after another bigger one was built nearby.

The old elementary school is located right next to a neighborhood BREC park, and Mercer says what residents want is to use the school property to expand this recreational facility.

"I think they would love to have something like that," he said.

Playground equipment that hasn't been used in two years still sits at the school, only separated from the park by a fence. Mercer says they don't want just another park but a unique, one-of-a-kind facility.

"They could put special needs playgrounds or something that would be kinda unique for this area because I don't think there's one here," Mercer said.

The demolition of the school is scheduled to be complete this September.

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