Syracuse, N.Y. COR Development Co. today began demolishing a former canal maintenance building at the Syracuse Inner Harbor, kicking off the start of $350 million redevelopment that is to turn the harbor into a residential and commercial attraction.

COR originally intended to redevelop the maintenance building as a community boathouse. However, the company said the building was deteriorated and determined by engineers to be "structurally unsound." The demolition will take about two weeks.

The company said it is looking into several alternative uses for the site and for alternatives for public docking and a community boat launch.

The building formerly was used by the state Canal Corp. to repair its fleet of canal boats. The Inner Harbor, located off Solar Street between Franklin Square and the Destiny USA shopping mall, was once a state Barge Canal terminal.

The state gave the land surrounding the harbor to the city of Syracuse. The city agreed in 2012 to sell the land to Fayetteville-based COR for a redevelopment that will include a hotel, apartments, retail shops and commercial buildings.

COR said it is seeking final approvals for a 130-room Aloft Hotel on the southern end of the harbor and for the construction of new city streets and public infrastructure to prepare the western shore for development. Construction of the hotel is scheduled to start in June.

COR plans to move a former freight house on the eastern shore of the harbor to different location along the shore.

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The demolition of the building at 27 Governor Street has gotten the backing of the Architectural Advisory Committee, which sent a recommendation to the Planning and Zoning Commission, the agency that would have authority over the project.

The demolition is proposed in connection with the Visiting Nurse Associations plans to build a headquarters on the property, just uphill from the town parking lot near the Boys & Girls Club.

Acting as the Village District Consultant, the architecture committee gave architect Peter Coffins plans a 5-0 favorable vote on a pre-application review on March 25.

Although this is a 19th-Century building, it was determined by the committee that all the Victorian-era trim and porches have been completely stripped from the building, and the interior has been gutted over the years, committee chairman John Kinnear wrote. There are no architectural or historic reasons to preserve the building or retain it as the core of a very large addition. The committee agrees that a new building on this site is in the best interest of the village.

Town Planner Betty Brosius said the demolition of the building would eventually be considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission acting as the Village District Commission.

It would probably be presented for public comment as part of the same as yet unscheduled public hearing that will consider the special permit application to build a new RVNA building, she said.

Ms. Brosius emphasized that the Village District Consultants agreement with the demolition plans is only a recommendation and the decision would be up to the commission.

This was only an informal review, she said.

The RVNA will have to file a special permit application and a Village District Application, and then the Planning and Zoning Commission will make decisions on both of those, when the time comes, she said.

That wont be for a month or so after the applications are submitted for review, she added.

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KELVINGROVE is iconic; the Finnieston crane is iconic; even the Duke of Wellington wearing his cone has become iconic.

City Council leader Gordon Matheson should be embarrassed at handing the dreadful Red Road flats the same status.

The concrete monstrosities have dominated Glasgow's skyline for 50 years, but thankfully not for much longer. Plans to dynamite five of the six remaining towers have been cunningly brought forward to replace the customary fireworks during the opening ceremony to July's Commonwealth Games.

The 15-second demolition, the biggest seen in Europe, will be live on a 328ft wide screen at Celtic Park and beamed to a TV audience of one billion.

Typical Weegies. Find an empty, have a party and wreck it. Or maybe it's self-parody on the stereotype of the tight-fisted Scot.

Either way, it's sparked the biggest stooshie since Matheson's architectural aberration over George Square.

So, what relevance does such demolition have to a sporting celebration? Well, London 2012 opened with the history of Britain's Industrial Revolution and the NHS and by common consent was an Olympian success.

Glasgow 2014's opening is expected to reveal the city's rich history and culture, with the Red Road demolition woven into its social regeneration. And I suppose there will be contingency planning should demolition need to be postponed.

London's opening was directed by Academy Award-winning British director Danny Boyle. To hear Matheson's critics, he's hired Frankie Boyle.

It's a joke, they cry, something could go wrong, so let's not risk it (an uncanny echo there of Bitter Together's Project Fear message).

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Washburn Universitys Margaret Mulvane Morgan Memorial Hall $17 million renovation project is underway with demolition, said Richard Liedtke, project manager.

Demolition began on the halls northwestern corner at the beginning of March.

We continue to make progress as far as demolition goes, said Liedtke, the universitys executive director of enrollment management.

Limestone from the outside of the building and portions of marble from inside the building were saved and will be repurposed, Liedtke said.

Morgan Hall used to be a library. It had been housing several key Washburn offices, including financial aid, admissions and the business office.

The former librarys stacks, which were being used for storage, were being removed Monday, Liedtke said.

The area of the hall that used to house the presidents office and admissions has been gutted, Liedtke said.

That will be remodeled into new office space, he said.

The new office suites for human resources and university relations are completed.

Morgan Hall survived the 1966 Topeka tornado, which devastated Washburns campus and destroyed five major buildings, according to previous Topeka Capital-Journal articles. The university soon afterward arranged for the construction of a three-story addition to Morgan and put up four clock faces on its clock tower.

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