DESPITE the residents and village officials efforts to stop it, the demolition of the structures of 157 families living in Sitio San Miguel, Barangay Apas, Cebu City pushed through yesterday.

A team began tearing down the houses after Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 9 Judge Alexander Acosta and Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 6 Judge Pamela Baring-Uy denied separate motions for a temporary restraining order (TRO).

The motions for TRO that the courts denied had been filed by City Hall lawyers and the camp of Ben Militar, who represents at least 39 of the 157 affected families.

Another motion for a TRO was also filed yesterday before the RTC by Feliciano Payot, the legal counsel of majority of the affected families, but the court has yet to act on it.

Around 2 p.m., a demolition team hired by Aletha Suico-Magat started to tear down the houses. Suico-Magat is the owner of the property where the families live.

The team dismantled two of the 157 structures, in the presence of 50 policemen and 15 members of the Special Weapons and Tactics team, who were there to ensure the demolition stayed peaceful.

Tension rose once the demolition team started to knock down the houses, since the residents tried to stop them, considering the court has not acted yet on the motion filed by Atty. Payot.

To appease the crowd, Apas Barangay Captain Ramil Ayuman went to the site and met with court sheriff Edilberto Suarin and some of the demolition team.

He appealed to them to stop the demolition, considering also that it was already 3 p.m.

They granted Ayumans request but added that the demolition will continue at 8:30 a.m. today.

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MANITOWOC, Wis. (WFRV) - Today demolition started on a lakeshore eyesore.

"When the windows came out I saw so many people pulling over to take pictures of it because everybody knows somebody who used to work here way back in the day" says Ryan Witkauskis, a longtime Manitowoc resident.

For more than a decade the one million square foot building reminded the community of lost jobs.

"It has been an eye sore" says Michelle Olson another resident.

The toll it took was not only emotional.

"It is a safety concern, it is a health concern because of the asbestos that was in there" explains Manitowoc Mayor Justin Nickels.

Valuable materials, including wood, steel and bricks have been removed to help offset the demolition costs, estimated at more than $6 million.

"The city has wanted to see one of those buildings down for a long time" says Eric J. Spirtas, who owns the dilapidated building.

The building has been vacant since 2003 and while it takes up a large footprint in the city of Manitowoc, the city sees very little tax benefit.

According to Mayor Nickels "To get something in its place is a win win no matter what it is"

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Demolition has begun on the exterior of some iconic buildings on Tennessee's campus.

Heavy equipment started tearing down Stokely Athletics Center and Gibbs Hall this week. The demolition will make room for a new residence hall among other plans.

The new residence hall will then be built close to the current Gibbs Hall location and open to students in the summer 2016. It will have 729 single-occupancy rooms with shared living areas. The 33,000-square-foot residence hall will be open to male and female students. The hall's dining facility will be open to all students, faculty, and staff. The $94 million project will be financed through student housing fees and revenue bonds.

Expanding Haslam Field is the third phase of the project, with a completion date of 2016. Once completed, the facility will have three full-size exterior grass outdoor practice fields along with the nearby indoor full-size practice field. This project is estimated to cost $10 million and will be funded solely by a private donor.

Built in 1958, Stokely Athletic Center closed its doors for good in December 2012. Memorabilia from its decades as home of the Volunteer men's and women's basketball teams is stored in other areas of campus. Gibbs Hall, which was built in 1963, closed to residents last spring. The dining hall portion of the building closed in December.

More of the plan includes: Tearing down North Carrick, South Carrick, Humes, Reese, Morrill and the Apartment Residence Hall and replacing them with three to four level buildings in a village-style community. They also plan to add a new dining facility.

Right now, the university is seeking approval from the Board of Trustees and the State Building Commission to add these six buildings to an already approved plan to demolish and rebuild Shelbourne Towers.

The university has an aggressive timeline. They want to have it all finished in five years by 2019.

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Demolition crews from A-Core prepare to bring down an old LDS chapel at 400 East and 100 South Monday, March 3, 2014. The building was donated to the American Cancer Society and is scheduled for demolition to make way for Hope Lodge.

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SALT LAKE CITY Patients battling cancer either far from home or without family will have the option to be housed in the city and nearer to medical facilities sooner rather than later.

The American Cancer Society this week is beginning demolition to prepare for its local Hope Lodge site, hoping to help up to 800 patients each year with a sterile healing environment that intends to be their home away from home.

"Cancer patients shouldn't have to worry about lodging arrangements or burdensome travel costs," said Pam Higginson, vice president and Hope Lodge campaign director for the American Cancer Society's Great West Division. "We are committed to bringing them this remarkable house of healing to let them concentrate on what's most important getting well."

Demolition is another step in making the Salt Lake City Hope Lodge a reality, Higginson said.

It has also helped to bring together other nonprofit organizations throughout Utah. The local Habitat for Humanity group has harvested materials from the old church building on the property to use in building homes for needy families or for the organization's retail store. The donation of materials is the largest Habitat for Humanity has received in Utah.

Five 30-foot pine trees that once towered over the church have been dug up and transported to the Navajo Tribe near Mexican Hat in San Juan County.

Labor and materials used for each effort also were donated, keeping several tons of building material out of Utah landfills. As the final demolition takes place, the remaining materials will be properly separated and sorted for additional reuse and recycling.

The new facility which will stand at the northwest corner of 100 South and 400 East, where the old 13th Ward LDS Church meetinghouse is located will offer 42 private suites, each equipped with two beds, study/office space and a private bathroom. The 43,000-square-foot building will also have several common areas for patients to mingle.

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The permit process required before demolition is allowed in an industrial district could get a lot more detailed.

At its meeting Monday, the Brainerd City Council held the first reading of an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance that would lay out a more thorough process in obtaining a permit for demolition or decommission in industrial or mixed use districts.

Ultimately, it would give the city council more say and oversight in what happens during the demolition or decommission process.

The vote comes at the tail end of a four-month moratorium, which was placed at the councils Dec. 3 meeting, halting demolition in industrial districts. It ends April 3.

The move was in response to the city receiving inquiries from contractors in regard to potential demolition of portions of the former Wausau Paper site.

Staff was concerned because the structures underground will limit the future of the site in building and extending utilities. Other concerns with demolition included: potential noise, vibrations, truck traffic, heavy dust and disposal of hazardous waste.

Since then the topic was sent to the planning commission to hash out a better process to approve demolitions. The current process is an over-the-counter demolition permit.

That leaves no room for the city to provide input or have a say in what happens in a decommissioning or demolition process.

Its inadequate to protect public health, safety and welfare concerning all of the potential negative impacts such demolitions could cause, said City Planner Mark Ostgarden.

Should the proposed amendments be passed, anyone wanting to decommission or demolition property in an industrial or mixed use district must first apply for an interim use permit. Then, they must appear before the planning commission for a public hearing to explain how the decommissioning will happen and answer any questions.

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Workers have started demolition work at the Port of Longviews Berth 4, clearing out wooden decks to kick off redevelopment of one of the ports oldest properties.

Operators of the ports 560-ton Liebherr mobile harbor crane were tearing up the surface Monday in front of the ports old grain terminal, which has gone unused for three decades. A second crane handled some of the smaller work.

Port officials said this phase of the $1.4 million dock demolition project should be finished by the end of the month and has supported seven jobs on the dock. Workers will finish the demolition of the pilings in October when state regulations permit work in the water to resume.

Port officials have identified the $12 million redevelopment of Berth 4 as a top priority to attract new industries and jobs to the area. In recent months, port officials have said they need to spend more than $70 million to upgrade aging equipment and facilities, and a divided port commission doubled the ports tax collections in December to generate money for some of these projects.

The dilapidated Berth 4 was once operated by Continental Grain Company until it was shuttered in the 1980s. Attempts to restart the terminal date back to the 1990s, but port officials abandoned those plans when they started pursuing the EGT grain terminal for the new Berth 9 site downriver.

Norm Krehbiel, the ports deputy director, said the old grain terminal dates back to Longviews beginnings in the early 1920s. Two expansions were completed by 1951, bringing the total number of of silos to 38.

Once the site is demolished, port officials say they envision bringing another bulk facility to the area, but they revealed no solid plans.

Krehbiel said port officials would need to do further testing on the silos themselves for demolition, and they have not lined up the financing. Nevertheless, he said they were excited to get started.

Its been on our radar for a long time as the number one redevelopment area in the port, Krehbiel said.

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