Crews in Huntsville's Old Towne neighborhood are demolishing the 1978 Huntsville Summit Apartments to make way for affordable senior housing, said Mary Ellen Judah of Neighborhood Concepts, which is overseeing the project. Demolition should take 30 to 45 days, with crews hosing the site for dust control. Afterward, crews will clean up and raise the land out of the flood zone.
The incinerator building at Scarsdale's Recycling Center is being demolished, with work documented October 20. The chimney will stay in place to support cell phone antennas. Deputy Village Manager Emily Giovanni says the 1930s structure, unused for years, had broken windows, cracked concrete and deteriorated steel. Superintendent Jeff Coleman's inspection found it beyond salvageable.
Demolition of grain towers in Moberly, Missouri is in its final stages, with only the building bases left standing as of Tuesday. City spokesman Scott Garvey said high-reach demolition work finished Monday, with remaining work focused on sorting metals and crushing concrete into fill rock. Garvey said the project has had no unusual issues and remains on schedule and on budget, with completion expected within the next few weeks.
Crews razed the Coronado Hotel in downtown Phoenix on Oct. 19, using two excavators to clear the nearly century-old building two blocks south of Roosevelt Row. Developer True North Studio, which plans new apartments on the site, filed a demolition application in late February, with the building coming down about eight months later. The original Matt's Big Breakfast location on the same site was also torn down.
Crews are clearing the former Bellevue Vista Apartments site at 1051 108th Ave. NE for Brizo, an eight-story, 239-unit building from Spokane-based SRM Development. Bellevue issued a site-clearing and construction permit Aug. 13. SRM bought the property in March 2023 for just over $14 million and secured $72.5 million in construction financing from Bank OZK in October.
Demolition started October 16 on the Genesis Convention Center in Gary, Indiana, with a five-man McDonough Demolition crew using excavators and a compact loader to strip the 45-year-old building along Adams Street. The adjacent parking garage is also coming down. Gary-based Powers and Sons Construction had estimated repair and stabilization costs would exceed $10 million. The city expects full demolition and site restoration completed by August 24, 2027.
Bert Klapec, Inc. is demolishing St. Stephen Church at 21 State St. in Oil City, Pennsylvania, a Berea sandstone, brick and wood structure built in 1906 and owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie. Crews used excavators, an 80-foot high-lift, dump trucks and a skid loader, removing the apse and rear wall first and piling bricks as a ramp to reach upper sections while wetting debris with a firehose. The parcel covers about 0.24 acre, and no future use has been determined.
Crews are clearing the former Sugar Mill event venue in New Orleans, located opposite the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The teardown, photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, clears the site for a future Omni hotel project valued at roughly $600 million. The planned development would include approximately 1,000 guest rooms once construction begins.
ELEV8 Demolition crews are tearing down the former Sears store at Orange Park Mall in Orange Park, Florida, a 189,796-square-foot building vacated by the retailer in 2020. Work began in early September and is using excavators to separate steel and other recyclable material from construction debris, with loads hauled by dump truck and semi-truck to recycling centers. The site will become Orange Park Place, anchored by a Sprouts Farmers Market and other retail stores.
S.B. Cox is demolishing the former Dairy Bar complex at 1600 Roseneath Road in Richmond's Scott's Addition, clearing the two-acre site for Capital Square's planned seven-story mixed-use project. Remediation work began last month ahead of full demolition. The development will bring 321 apartments, including over 100 short-term "apartment hotel" units, plus 8,000-plus square feet of commercial space. Capital Square paid $11.5 million for the site in 2024 and targets spring 2027 for vertical construction; no general contractor is selected yet.
Crews demolishing the closed Canton paper mill in North Carolina uncovered a 30-foot-tall riveted steel sphere weighing about 40 tons, identified as an acid ball once used to store alum for cooking woodchips. Two Banks Development engineer Luke Williams says mill records suggest the sphere was built onsite, and an excavator attempt to remove it failed. Developers are discussing preserving it as a display piece along a planned riverwalk, with demolition still ongoing and more historical finds possible.
Environmental remediation is complete across more than 850,000 square feet at the former Libbey Glass site on Jewella Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana, clearing the way for full-scale demolition. North Louisiana Economic Partnership says about 95% of steel, brick and concrete will be recycled. Demolition began in a limited capacity in April and is expected to run through mid-2027, with the site's silos next to come down.