Demolition is underway at 61 Union St. in Attleboro, clearing the former Composite Modules factory, an early-1900s electronics manufacturing building on an 80,517-square-foot parcel at Mill and Union streets. A Hingham developer plans a 141-unit market-rate apartment complex on the site after the city council voted 7-3 in April to grant a $4.7 million tax increment exemption for the project.
Nueces County, Texas, opened seven bids Thursday for demolition and asbestos abatement of the 1914 Old County Courthouse in Corpus Christi, with all but one falling within the projected budget. Public works director Juan Pimentel will oversee the project, with Hanson Engineering providing oversight and Paul Pilarczyk as engineer director; salvaging materials from the site will not be permitted. A recommendation for conditional contractor selection goes to commissioners Oct. 14, with demolition expected to start after the new year and finish by March or April.
Demolition of the historic David Drummond House at 1310 State Street in Eau Claire began September 23 and continues through the week. Westaby Trucking of Stanley is operating excavators to remove the fire and water damaged Queen Anne home. Owner EDJ Rentals will let residents collect bricks by appointment September 25, 28 and 30.
Crews in Watford City, North Dakota, are demolishing three Main Street buildings as part of the city's Area Two redevelopment project. Work is expected to take about two weeks, running Monday through Saturday, with northbound Main Street closed between Second and Third Avenues. The Economic Development team will detail retail and gathering-space plans in October.
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.
R&D Excavating of Crestline will demolish most of the 17-acre West Park Shopping Center under a $896,845 bid approved by the Richland County Land Bank. Work follows a 10-day notice to Ohio EPA, starting with fencing and asbestos removal. Co-owner Ryan Lykins expects buildings down by year's end. The land bank also paid Ohio Edison up to $18,000 to remove utility poles and lines.
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.
The city of Racine is demolishing its downtown McMynn parking garage under a $1.3 million contract that also covers building a surface lot in its place. The work, approved in the 2026 budget, is expected to finish by late November, though fencing and landscaping could be pushed to spring if weather interferes. McMynn Tower residents who used the ramp have been given alternative parking through the city's parking management company.
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.
Gingles Excavating demolished the century-old Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on Main Street in Murray, Kentucky, across from Murray State University's campus. The Lambda Chi Alpha Housing Corporation plans a new one-story assembly hall of just under 3,000 square feet on the site, designed as a heated, air-conditioned meeting space rather than housing. Groundbreaking could begin as soon as October, pending planning steps. Housing units built behind the old house in 2013 and 2019 already accommodate 16 fraternity members.