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 mixture of both traditional demolition along with the "controlled" or explosive demolition method. The bridge railings, lights, barriers and concrete driving surface were all removed using traditional methods. Specific spans over the river and railroads were also disassembled in a traditional manner. Concrete piers will be demolished this summer using traditional methods.

The plan protects the businesses that operate from the Flats as well as people living and working in the Tremont neighborhood.

Members of the public are invited to watch the event.Due to limited view-sheds, only a small public viewing area near the corner of East 14th Street and Broadway Avenue is available.

The area will be accessible beginning at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 12. Paid, public parking is available in downtown lots a short walk from the viewing area. Even better, ride with our friends at RTA! The #19 bus provides direct access to the site.

A 1,000 foot perimeter will be set around the blast zone and many local roadways including I-90, the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, Abbey Avenue and others will be closed during the event. For a map of anticipated closures and closures times, please log-on to http://www.Innerbelt.org.

ODOT is in the midst of replacing the 1959 bridge with two new structures one to carry traffic in each direction.

The pair have been named in honor of statesman George V. Voinovich. Replacement of the 1959 bridge is vital to the success of moving people in and out of downtown Cleveland now and in the future. It will enhance capacity, bolster our economy and ensure the safety of motorists.

The first of the pair is now open and temporarily carrying traffic in both directions until completion of the second new bridge in late 2016.

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Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins held a news conference today to mark the first day of demolition of the vacant Clarion Hotel in South Toledo.

This has been a long time coming, Mayor Collins said. The building at at 2340 S. Reynolds Rd.has stood empty since 2009 when the previous owners, Florida-based Toledo Hotel Investment Group LLC, defaulted on $2 million in loans. The hotel has been described as a public safety hazard and has been broken into, vandalized, lived in illegally, and caught fire last month. The city is the current property owner.

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Crews tore out a few trees from in front of the hotel at the ceremony today; demolition on the exterior of the building itself cannot be carried out until asbestos abatement has been performed on the interior.

Mayor Collins called the demolition the beginning of ablight free Council District 2.

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Detailed engineering analysis work is continuing toward the start of demolition on the Old Ledbetter Bridge the Tennessee River between Livingston County and McCracken County, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

They say a specialty demolition contractor plans to mobilize the week of July 7-12 with the start of some on-site demolition prep activity possibly as early as the following week.

Jim Smith Contracting may be working to improve equipment access and clearing of some brush on the McCracken side of the river to prepare for demolition to ramp up.

The bluff along the McCracken County side of the river has continued moving since the west approach spans dropped several inches on April 30, according to KYTC. The land slippage has since taken out one land-based pier and two approach spans it supported at the west end of the bridge.

While there has been no impact on truss spans that cross the river navigation channel, KYTC said another land-based approach pier and span are leaning and could fall at any time.

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