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The old round building that sits across from Orlando's City Hall and in front of the new multimillion dollar Orlando Center for the Performing Arts was supposed to be gone by now, but most of it still stands. The partially dismantled building was initially to be gone before the arts center opened. It has taken some holiday visitors by surprise. "You weren't under attack were you? It looks like a bombed out building," visitors Lynne Geary and Lanny Geary told Channel 9's Lori Brown. Last week Channel 9 reported that contractor Pece of Mind Environmental warned the city that Crusader Demolition wasn't qualified to do the demolition project. A bid protest claimed that Crusader had never demolished even one three-story building. Following the protest the city changed the qualifications and awarded the bid to Crusader again. Brown made a number of attempts to contact Crusader, including driving to Lakeland, where she found their office building locked. City officials blame the delays in part on the company's vice president being fired, after Channel 9 aired video showing him fire a rifle inside the building. Brown asked another demolition company, Central Environmental Services, about the lack of progress on the project. "This building should have been on the ground and grass growing three months ago," said Richard Lorenz. According to representatives with Central Environmental Services, their company has demolished 50 buildings that were over six stories in height and entered a bid that was $100,000 less than the Crusader bid. Records show that the city did not consider Central Environmental Services' bid because Lorenz doesn't have a general contractor's license. Lorenz said the job is not one for a general contractor but rather for a demolition company. He said his company has done hundreds of demolitions for the city. On Friday the owner of Crusader called Brown and said that the reason no one was working on the demolition Thursday, one day before the deadline, was because a part had broken on a critical piece of equipment and they weren't able to get a replacement shipped over the holidays. He said they building would be demolished by Jan. 9 at the latest.

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The city has found nearly 300 structures that appear to be vacant all but seven of which are south of Mercury Boulevard.

As part of a city initiative to demolish more abandoned properties than in the past, inspectors began riding around the city south of Mercury this fall doing "windshield surveys" assessing the condition of properties without going inside. Structures that were obviously vacant with code violations went on a list.

Of the 289 apparent vacant properties, the city has flagged about 111 for demolition so far. About 10 demolitions have been completed, while 11 more have been awarded to contractors and will come down soon. The city plans to seek bids for demolitions of at least another 48 structures this winter.

North of Mercury, the city is identifying vacant properties by searching tax records to find properties for which owners have not paid taxes in several years, then going to check them out.

The vast majority of the vacant structures are in the Southeast Community houses, corner stores and even churches. On one residential block of 21st Street, from Wickham to Marshall avenues, nearly every house on both sides of the street is vacant.

Harry Thomas, who has lived on that block his whole life, said many of the vacant houses on his street are owned by rental companies. "For rent" signs with phone numbers were still posted to several of the boarded-up homes on a recent afternoon.

Councilwoman Tina Vick said absentee landlords such as these have been a major issue for the Southeast Community.

"They rent it out to people who they can't monitor because they're not in the area, so they end up renting to problematic people," Vick said.

The city recently demolished a two-story building at the corner of Ivy Avenue and 9th Street about a block from Vick's house.

"Nobody wants to wake up every day and have a house that's falling apart on our street or next door to them," Vick said. "When our community looks better, people feel better, and when people feel better, they do better."

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Plans to replace an unsafe bridge in North Scranton will take a big step forward next week.

Demolition is slated to begin Monday morning on the crumbling Rockwell Avenue bridge.

The Rockwell Avenue bridge was built in 1905 but it has been closed for years because it started to crumble.

PennDOT plans to tear down the current bridge and replace it.

Homeowners say the project can't be finished soon enough.

"It has been a headache for a lot of people," Eleanor Schreiber of North Scranton said.

After being closed for nearly three years, demolition is scheduled to begin Monday morning on the crumbling Rockwell Avenue bridge.

"I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled because it's long overdue," Schreiber said.

Closed in April 2012 because the bridge's stone arch started to fall apart, homeowners have been dealing with delays ever since.

"It's like torture. I don't, I don't like it at all," Daniel Navoczyneski of North Scranton said.

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(TNS) Those loud booming noises that have been coming from McConnell Air Force Base recently are signs of progress.

Crews have been tearing down an old hangar to make way for construction of a three-bay hangar for the new KC-46 refueling tanker.

Demolition of all sorts of existing McConnell structures has been in full force for several months so that more than 350 tons of steel can be brought in over the next two-plus years to build stuff. That, in turn, means a significant boost to the local economy.

One piece of equipment uses a large pincer to rip out huge steel beams from the old hangar.

That pincer pretty much makes those beams look like toothpicks when they cut it, said Ben Davis, project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the construction.

The first of the 36 aircraft targeted for McConnell are supposed to arrive in early 2016.

Construction contractors have their own deadlines to build three hangars to accommodate the KC-46 tankers, which are larger than the KC-135s they are replacing.

Two hangars a one-bay and a two-bay are scheduled to be finished by the end of 2015; the three-bay is set to be done by March 2017.

Things are on schedule, said Neal Ridgeway, project manager for Archer Western Aviation Partners, a joint venture of three companies from Chicago, St. Louis and Oklahoma City that serves as the general contractor for the new hangars. Were pleased with the progress so far.

Demolition of an old four-bay hangar known as Building 1106, where the three-bay hangar will be built should be completed in January.

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Tony Schaefer picks up bricks during the demolition of his home, which was on the National Historic Register. Sadly, the home was completely destroyed by a fire earlier this year. (Robin Zielinski Sun-News)

MESILLA >> On the last day of 2014, Tony Schaefer had a bittersweet sentiment: Out with the old.

On Wednesday, Schaefer and a work crew began demolition of a house that historic preservationists believe was originally built about 1890. It was the house Schaefer has owned for 12 years, and where he and his wife, Annette, raised their children.

A July 10 fire destroyed the home. The cause of the fire remains undetermined. Since then, Schaefer, a former state Public Regulation Commission member, has worked extensively with his insurance company to arrange some kind of settlement on the property. The house is considered a total loss and Schaefer said he had no choice but to raze the house and sell the property.

In 1915, then-owner C.T. Turney enlarged the original house, turning it into a two-story farmhouse that eventually included eight bedrooms and three bathrooms. The second floor of the farm house even had a ballroom. The home was destroyed by fire in July 2014. (Courtesy of Eric Liefeld Mesilla Valley Preservation)

The house has been on the New Mexico and U.S. Historic Registers since 1982.

"I'm afraid all we're going to have now is photos and memories," said Schaefer, his voice cracking. "The main house is structurally unsound. It's an absolutely unsafe condition."

Reluctantly, the Mesilla board of trustees OK'd a demolition permit. But that didn't come before months of evaluation about whether the house could be saved.

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