11 Feb 2014 10:17

Council bosses say work to tear down the old bus station and car park will start in late February

The demolition of two town centre landmark buildings will begin this month.

Council bosses say work to tear down the old bus station and car park will start in late February.

Demolition crews will then knock down the old ' Black Box ' municipal offices.

The project is expected to take nine months to complete. It's part of the 100m redevelopment of the town centre, which will see shops, restaurants.

While demolition work is ongoing a new entrance to the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre on Baillie Street will be built to replace the overhead walkway linked to the bus station.

Rochdale council s cabinet member for economic development, Coun Peter Williams, said the move was a big step forward in the regeneration of the town centre while demolition crews vowed to minimise disruption while the work takes place.

A town hall spokesperson said demolition experts Connell Brothers would begin by removing the two access ramps to the old bus station car park at the end of the month.

They will then begin leveling the rest of the 1970s building.

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Demolition crews started tearing down several buildings near 135 S. Main Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, to make way for the new Utah Performing Arts Center. The facility is expected to be completed in spring 2016.

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SALT LAKE CITY Demolition crews are tearing down several buildings on Main Street to make way for the new state-of-the-art theater in Salt Lake City.

"It's time to get this show on the road," said Alan Rindlisbacher with Layton Construction Company.

Artists renderings of the Utah Performing Arts Center depict a beautiful wall of windows looking out onto Main Street. It's a place where many will be able to enjoy shows and musical performances. But, that's more than two years away. Long before the curtain goes up, the old buildings must come down.

"It's our time to perform right now," Rindlisbacher said of the construction workers.

Preparation work began in August and crews have been demolishing on the east side of the block for a couple of weeks. Now the public can start to see progress.

They will take out three buildings to the north of Neumont University. An office tower on the corner of 100 South will integrate with the center. Demolition will last three or four months, and then excavation can begin.

"There will be mass excavation," said Rindlisbacher. "We've got to dig the hole. We've got to do the utilities. It's going to be another year before we start to see the steel come out of the ground."

The Utah Performing Arts Center (also called The New Performing Arts Center) on 135 S. Main Street will include a 2,500-seat theater that will stage major Broadway shows. The Capitol Theatre and Kingsbury Hall each have a seating capacity of around 1,900. Because of the low seating capacity, many blockbuster Broadway productions, such as The Lion King and Wicked, often appear later in Salt Lake City than in other cities, according to the New Performing Arts Center website. In addition, both venues have challenging load-in, lobby, backstage, seating, parking and concessions logistics for larger touring shows.

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Faced with a public backlash, Mayor Buddy Dyer on Monday put the brakes on a plan to tear down the grandstands and buildings at historic Tinker Field at least for now.

The mayor said he had ordered a halt to the demolition that was scheduled to happen as soon as next month. He also asked architects to "look at all options to preserve the historic significance of Tinker Field."

Even so, the days of baseball at Tinker Field seem to be over. A renovation that's now in progress will enlarge the Citrus Bowl, encroaching into Tinker Field so much that it would no longer be suitable for America's pastime.

An aide to the mayor said the buildings and grandstand, or some part of them, could be preserved in some way as a monument to the Hall of Famers who played there and the day 50 years ago when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the pitcher's mound at a civil rights rally.

Or it could still be demolished.

The reprieve gives time for community participation that never happened before the Dyer administration announced the demolition two weeks ago. That announcement caught many by surprise including city commissioners, who were told only a few days earlier.

"I can't support the demolition of Tinker Field.We get more public input on speed humps on a street than this process involving millions of dollars and the destruction of a historic asset, and I feel that is wrong," said Commissioner Patty Sheehan, who went on to blister the Dyer administration for a lack of transparency.

Two weeks ago, city officials said Tinker Field was in such disrepair, with substandard plumbing, sewer and electrical systems, that it would be too costly to fix. And even if it were renovated, the outfield would still be too small to host baseball.

Instead, the administration announced a plan to build a new ballpark on an adjacent parcel, McCracken Field, at an estimated cost of $3 million.

"The guiding principle regarding the future of Tinker Field was that this is an opportunity to build a facility that would restore a functioning baseball stadium to the area and to preserve the historic significance of Tinker Field," Dyer said Monday.

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