Demolition of former Dayton Daily News building shuts street

The demolition of the former Dayton Daily News building caused the brief shutdown of Ludlow Street on Thursday afternoon when chunks of concrete worked loose.

Chunks of brick and concrete fell out onto Ludlow when the remnants of the building shifted. The debris hit the street just before 6 p.m.

A Dayton police officer, who was driving by the project site, saw the incident and had the street shut down from Third to Fourth streets.

No one was injured. Ludlow was reopened at about 6:30 p.m.

The razing of the former Daily News building, at Fourth and Ludlow streets, began on Aug. 20. A historic portion of the newspaper building -- the "bank" building and a piece of the Fourth Street facade, which are on the National Register of Historic Places -- will be preserved.

Part of the non-historic section of the building was brought down in mid-August with the implosion of the 12-story Schwind Building, 25-27 S. Ludlow St. The demolition, which will make room for a student housing development, should be wrapped up by early December.

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Demolition of former Dayton Daily News building shuts street