AKRON, Ohio – The City of Akron began demolition of the historic Rubber Bowl Stadium. The demolition was ordered due to a public safety risk to residents and the surrounding properties. Built in 1940, the stadium served as the home for the Akron Zips football team until 2008. READ MORE: News5Cleveland.com Article Courtesy of WEWS News […]
NORTH RANDALL, OH (WOIO) – The wrecking crews converged Monday on the former Randall Park Mall in North Randall. Cuyahoga County’s small piece of history will be reduced to rubble and replaced by an industrial park. Demolition began at Dillard’s and is expected to take about three months. READ MORE: 19ActionNews.com Article and […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Hold on to your hats! The controlled explosive demolition of the steel skeleton of the 1959 Innerbelt Bridge will take place at first light on Saturday morning July 12. Controlled demolition will drop five (5) of the nine (9) steel spans of the old bridge. The team has used a […]
PARMA, Ohio – The public has been invited to see the wrecking ball take down the former Macy’s at the former site of the Parmatown Mall. The demolition of the store, which closed in 2012, will be Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 9:30 a.m. Developer Phillips Edison & Company calls the demolition the next step […]
CLEVELAND – Family members returned to Ariel Castro’s home on Monday collecting personal items named in Castro’s plea deal. Ariel’s son Anthony Castro arrived to Seymour Avenue home late Monday morning flanked by his father’s attorney Craig Weintraub. During sentencing, Judge Michael Russo determined clothing and other assorted items would be distributed amongst family […]
CLEVELAND – News that Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue home will be demolished energized residents on Friday. “Once they tear the house down, they won’t have nothing to look at,” said De’Andrea Harris, who lives across the street from Castro’s home. “It’s going to be destroyed,” said Aurora Marti in Spanish. She also lives on Seymour. […]
CLEVELAND -The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is looking into the future of 2207 Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, the home where Ariel Castro is accused of holding three women hostage for nearly a decade. A demolition inspector from the Land Bank visited the property Thursday, a day before a plea deal for Castro is expected to […]
LORAIN, Ohio – The city of Lorain is committed to taking down condemned homes that can’t be saved. Mayor Chase Ritenauer launched a massive demolition program, that started with 4 homes taken down in less than an hour, by multiple wrecking crews. “Today is huge. We fought long and hard for this when I took […]
CLEVELAND – Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson says he believes more condemned homes can be saved and occupied by owners who care about the community. According to Johnson, more than 15,000 Cleveland homes are unoccupied and that number continues to grow. Johnson pointed to a vacant house on South Boulevard, a house owned by the Cuyahoga […]
CLEVELAND – Demolition was completed Tuesday on Cleveland’s real life “House of Horrors.” By 3 p.m. crews only needed to fill in the basement hole where the house at 12205 Imperial Avenue once stood. Crews with demolition equipment started gathering at Anthony Sowell’s house on Cleveland’s east side before 7 a.m. In October 2009, Cleveland […]
More than two years after Cleveland authorities discovered a real House of Horrors, the home of Anthony Sowell will be torn down Tuesday. Demolition of the home at 12205 Imperial Ave. will begin at 7 a.m. The remains of 11 women were found in 2009. A spokeswoman for the city of Cleveland said that the […]