Texas Stadium, the former home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, has its days numbered. The Irving City Council has been considering giving a $5.8 million demolition contract to a local excavation company to implode the famous building. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. was hired to study how the demolition should go forward. It was determined [...]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved a $1.17 repetitive flood claims grant for the demolition of the Riverside Inn in Ozark, Missouri. The owners of the restaurant will receive $996,014 for acquisition of the property, as well as the remaining $174,437 will cover asbestos abatement as well as other demolition costs. Fair market value [...]
Foster Auditorium at the University Alabama is getting an addition. The recent addition will look nearly identical to the original façade, as the project manager said that they are trying to mirror the architecture to make it look similar it’s always been a part of the building. The $15 million expansion as well as renovation [...]
The historic Luzon Building in Tacoma, Washington came down on September 26. Built 119 years ago, it was demolished despite efforts of local lawyers to find a judge who would grant a temporary restraining order to halt the demolition. The demolition was carried out by R.W. Rhine Inc, costing the city approximately $600,000. The expenses [...]
The James River Reserve Fleet in Newport News, Virginia is best known as the Ghost Fleet. Once numbering over 800 ships after World War II, the fleet has dwindled to only 25 ships as of mid-September following the departure of the Escape for recycling. Seventeen more ships are expected to leave the Ghost Fleet by [...]
The historic Virginian Railway passenger station in Roanoke, Virginia is finally going to begin renovations. The railway station had been damaged by fire in 2001, as well as both railroad buffs as well as historic preservationists possess been concerned about saving the station since then. It is owned by the National Railway Historical Society, which [...]
The former Common Industries site in Elyria, Ohio was destroyed in a July 2008 fire. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has collected 200 samples from the fire site in order to test for as well as discover asbestos contamination after determining that the building owner, John Peshek, had not made a large deal [...]
Dr. Gregory Grammelspacher of Indianapolis, Indiana is using part in the cross-country “Ride to Remember” with 13 other cyclists. The 3,280-mile bike ride began in Santa Barbara, California on September 14 as well as is scheduled to end in Charleston, South Carolina on October 24. He rides in memory of the patients of Wishard Hospital’s [...]
High school students from Detroit, Michigan volunteered their time over the summer to help uncluttered up the Michigan Central Train Station, which is owned by billionaire Matty Maroun. Volunteers came from a group called Summer in the City, for a combined 75,000 hours of volunteer work done by nearly 1,000 students throughout the summer.
At the [...]
In Oxford v. Foster Wheeler LLC , the California Earliest District Court of Appeal recently reversed a judgment for over $1 million against Foster Wheeler, stating that the San Francisco Superior Court jury’s verdicts were inconsistent with the plaintiff’s claims. But the court as well as rejected Foster Wheeler’s claim that complying with U.S. Navy [...]
