PAW Demolition took down the eastern span of the SW 66th Street (Williams Road) bridge over northbound I-75 on Sept. 21, 2026, completing work that began with the western span over southbound lanes in late July and early August. The Florida Department of Transportation is overseeing the project, which will replace the structure with a taller bridge.
Crews began razing the former Northeast Nassau Building at Kings Park Psychiatric Center in Smithtown, New York, on Thursday, clearing the way for underground leaching fields tied to the Smithtown Main Street sewer project. Suffolk County's Department of Public Works expects demolition and leaching-field construction to take about a year; officials said prior asbestos removal had delayed the work.
The former Donut Connection building on Tarentum Bridge Road in New Kensington was demolished Thursday, clearing the site for a Chipotle. The developer received a demolition permit Wednesday, city clerk John Zavadak said. Parking lot grading is expected next, though a timeline wasn't given. Chipotle spokesperson Jaden Hall said the location is scheduled to open next year.
The former Emma Abbott Memorial Chapel at 52 Cooper Street in Charleston, South Carolina, was demolished Wednesday after an exterior wall neared collapse and closed nearby rights-of-way. The permit allowed demolition with exceptions, requiring the facade to be preserved and reassembled once redevelopment framework is built. The city is reviewing whether permit conditions were followed and plans a funded survey of downtown historic buildings.
Benton, Kentucky city council awarded the demolition of the former Benton First Methodist Church to Siteworks LLC of Almo, Kentucky, whose bid came in well under the $331,000 high bid from a Georgia firm among seven submitted. Demolition is expected to begin in early October, after a final church service planned in the parking lot on Sept. 27, and will likely close one to two blocks of Poplar Street for about a week.
Three buildings, an old store, a vacant house and a detached garage, were burned and torn down in Camp Creek, Tennessee, near Greystone and Camp Creek roads. Camp Creek VFD plans a 6,000-square-foot metal garage with 14-foot, 12-foot-wide truck bays, replacing nine-foot bays. East Tennessee Contractors will deliver it by late October, funded by an estate donation.
Demolition kicks off Sept. 28 on the vacant Seaspray condominiums at Bay Avenue and 34th Street in Ocean City, N.J., shuttered since the city declared them structurally unsafe. The HOW Group, of Conshohocken, Pa., which bought the site for nearly $6 million, will build a 43-unit, four-story replacement with 87 covered parking spaces, a green roof and pool. Construction is tentatively planned for early 2027 and would take 18 months, with pricing announced in November.
Demolition preparations are underway for the Red Rock Inn in Plymouth, Indiana, condemned after a first responder nearly fell through a loose railing. Hippo Demo, hired for the job, says IDEM approved the start date and an asbestos contractor already cleared hazardous material, with work expected Thursday or Friday. Only the hotel's L-shaped section can come down; the attached restaurant remains off-limits due to a pending lawsuit.
R&D Excavating of Crestline won a Richland County Land Bank contract to demolish the former West Park Shopping Center on Mansfield's Park Avenue, submitting the lowest of nine bids at $886,845. The project is funded through a $1 million Ohio Department of Development brownfield grant and includes asbestos removal on the 17-acre site. Unlike R&D's earlier Westinghouse job, materials cannot be crushed onsite due to commercial zoning. Work must start within 30 days and finish by end of May, though the company expects completion by December.
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Crews in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, have finished tearing down the former main auditorium of First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, with the structure fully down as of September 23. Excavator operators worked the site to sort debris and recyclables, using steel girders to shift material into piles. Developer Gateway Jax bought the property and plans an apartment tower and a Publix store there.
Demolition of the former Emma Abbott Memorial Chapel at Cooper and America streets in Charleston began Sept. 23, with half the building down by 9 a.m. City officials briefly halted the work on Sept. 21 before confirming developer Styx's right to proceed under an Aug. 21 permit. The plan calls for deconstructing the chapel, then rebuilding it in similar form using salvaged shingle siding, with six residential units in the finished structure.