THE demolition of Blackburns iconic Waves Water Fun Centre is expected to be confirmed by councillors this week.

The 25-year-old baths, in Nab Lane, will close this spring and Blackburn with Darwen Council is expected to sell the site.

Work on a modern 13.5 million leisure centre, backed by Blackburn College, is already under way in nearby Feilden Street.

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A report before the councils executive board, which meets on Thursday, recommends that councillors approve the demolition and give regeneration bosses the go-ahead to tender the demolition contract.

The report reads: The new leisure centre being developed in partnership with Blackburn College is nearing completion. It is anticipated that the current Waves Centre will cease operations in spring 2015 and become vacant.

The costs of holding empty property, its vulnerability, lack of alternative use for the building and the potential for a new development point to a requirement for early demolition.

Waves currently costs 32,000 per month to run, and even after demolition the holding costs of the site are expected to be around 17,000 per month costs which will be met by the councils leisure department.

Councillor Maureen Bateson, executive member for regeneration, said: The opening of the leisure centre in the spring and the demolition of Waves will create a new site for redevelopment and regeneration in the town centre.

Regeneration bosses will look to use the same contractor to demolish The Exchange Offices once home to the councils childrens services department the report added.

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Pueblo leaders knew as far back as 2011 that Black Hills Energy planned to demolish the old Downtown power plant unless the city wanted to take the property over, utility executives said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Pueblo City Councils last-minute move to delay the $5 million tear-down will disrupt a demolition contract already in place, the executives said during a presentation at a Pueblo Rotary 43 luncheon at the Pueblo Convention Center.

The utility contracted with one company to do demolition and cleanup work in Wyoming, South Dakota, the old Clark coal-fired plant in Canon City starting this month and the old Downtown Pueblo plant starting in April, they said.

The utilitys presentation Tuesday on the demolition project follows a Dec. 23 vote by City Council to impose a temporary ban on all large-building demolitions, a move clearly directed at the old power plant on Victoria Avenue.

City Council members say they want more time to study possible re-use of the power plant building.

Right after the vote, Black Hills executives said the decision could disrupt its demolition schedule and add $500,000 in costs that would be shared by ratepayers in Black Hills service territory outside of Pueblo, such as Canon City and Rocky Ford.

At the luncheon Tuesday, the utility offered more details supporting its position on why the demolition should go ahead, including its own research into the costs and challenges of redevelopment projects.

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A power plant redevelopment in Denver for an REI sports store cost an estimated $32 million and likely would not have happened without the infusion of $6.2 million in public money from the citys Urban Renewal Authority.

A redevelopment of an old power plant in St. Louis into a climbing wall gym was led by a company that supplies the climbing wall industry. It justified the project in part because of St. Louis large population.

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Tearing down the old Kensington Heights public housing project vacant since 1980 has been long, expensive and frustrating for the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority.

It has been equally discouraging for those who live nearby and wonder why it takes so long to get things done in that part of the city.

But after years of scandal, lawsuits, indictments and escalating costs, the sixth and last tower could be taken down by the end of this summer, said Dawn E. Sanders-Garrett, the authoritys executive director.

This has been frustrating, Sanders-Garrett said. I definitely understand the feelings of people in the community who wish this had been done sooner. No one wants more than me to see this completed. I am looking forward to the positive economic boost that a redeveloped Kensington Heights can give to this community. Im excited.

The projects $9.8 million cost so far is more than three times what the authority intended to spend when the demolition work began in 2009, and it projects $1.5 million in additional costs before finishing the work. It has also spent millions from its cash reserves on the project, prompting complaints from a tenant representative on its board.

But now the last tower, near Erie County Medical Center, is all ready and cleared for demolition, Sanders-Garrett said.

Still, people such as Edward L. Wiley, 70, who lives near the site, say it seems that the work has taken forever.

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