Published: Monday, August 5, 2013, 7:12p.m. Updated 2 minutes ago

Allen Enterprises & Recycling LLC has filed for bankruptcy.

The business is owned by Rodney Allen of Connellsville, owner of a building currently under demolition at 105-107 W. Crawford Ave. in Connellsville.

Michael C. Gallo, an attorney with an office in Murrysville, filed the Chapter 7 petition last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh.

Gallo said the filing has nothing to do with the company doing the demolition of the Connellsville property.

(The filing) will afford Mr. Allen the opportunity to reorganize Allen Enterprises, Gallo said during a telephone conversation on Monday afternoon. But it won't affect the demolition.

Workers were at the site on Monday afternoon. The section of the building housing the infamous sky toilet has been taken down. The toilet is sitting in the grass next to the demolished section of the structure.

Last week Joshua DeWitt, nephew of Rodney Allen, said the demolition would include all but the first floors of the structures. Plans would call for the refurbishing of the remainder of the buildings and include the installation of a green roof.

Allen was ordered to have the building down by Aug. 7. However, Tom Currey, Connellsville's code and zoning officer said there are no problems with a partial demolition of the structures as long as the amended plans are approved and the demolition of everything except the first floors is completed by Aug. 7.

According to Connellsville's zoning ordinance for commercial buildings along Crawford Avenue, buildings must be at least two stories high or be at least 24 feet high. A single-story structure with a facade reaching that height would be allowed, if approved. Plans must be submitted to the city's planning commission. If approved by the city planning commission, the county must then also approve.

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Closed to vehicular traffic for nearly two decades and to pedestrians for at least one, Narberths Rockland Avenue Bridge is finally coming down for real, this time.

Narberth Borough officials announced that some of the preliminary work for demolition of the span over the tracks used by Amtrak and SEPTAs Paoli-Thorndale regional rail line began July 30.

It should be noted, this is a separate project from the long-anticipated replacement of the North Narberth Avenue bridge in Narberth's downtown. Closure of that imporant link to Lower Merion Township for demolition and construction of a new bridge is expected to begin in 2014.

Additional preparatory work for the Rockland Avenue Bridge demolition will continue over the next few weeks, leading up to actual removal of the bridge span during the weekend of Aug. 23-26.

With final work to clean up and restore the approach areas, the project is expected to be completed by Sept. 20.

In an interview, borough manager Bill Martin said work began on time last week and is running on schedule.

The Rockland Avenue Bridge is one of Pennsylvanias many orphan bridges, built by now-defunct agencies such as railway companies. Responsibility for these structures has fallen to the municipalities in which they sit. In the case of the Rockland Avenue bridge, it was determined that that responsibility lies with Narberth Borough.

As long ago as 2009, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission had ordered that the defunct bridge had to come down; demolition was originally projected for the following summer. However, working through the process to determine funding responsibilities and coordinate with Amtrak has pushed the project back to this summer. The good news is that, while Narberth will pay a share of the costs, the great majority of funding for the project will come from state and federal sources.

With the project now about to start, a detailed schedule of work has been announced. To avoid disruption of train service, Martin said some of the work involved in the demolition project will take place during nighttime hours.

Leading up to the work, We had two field meetings on the borough side recently, Martin said. Continued...

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The explosive demolition of a portion of the vacated Dayton Daily News building and a building next door could come within weeks, city staffers said Monday.

A large student housing development will be built at the former Dayton Daily News site at Fourth and Ludlow streets in a $22 million project. But to make that happen, the modern portion of the newspaper building must be demolished as well as the Schwind building immediately to the north.

Contractor Steve Rauch Inc. plans to use Dykon Explosive Demolition of Tulsa, Okla., to take the buildings down, said Andrew Steele, a fire prevention specialist with the Dayton Fire Department. The department must approve a permit for the demolition, Steele said. The permit application is still being prepared, he said, but he expects to receive it within days. Steele said hell examine it to make certain it meets state requirements regarding the use of explosives in demolitions.

The last time explosives were used to demolish a downtown building was in 1999 when the Lazarus Building was taken down to make way for the Schuster Performing Arts Center.

The demolition is also now being coordinated with the Dayton Police Department and neighboring building owners, Steele said.

The city of Dayton has allocated $755,000 in city development funds to help offset developer Student Suites cost of asbestos removal and demolition of the Schwind Building. Also helping fund the new development is a $1 million pledge from Cox Media Group Ohio, owner of the Dayton Daily News.

As part of that agreement, Student Suites will preserve the small, historic bank-like Dayton Daily News structure, built in 1908 at the corner of Fourth and Ludlow. The bank building and a piece of the Fourth Street faade are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Student Suites officials have said they plan to have the housing complex open in August 2014 for the start of the next school year at Sinclair Community College.

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One man had his leg severed Saturday and four others were also injured as shrapnel from the demolition of a power plant flew into a crowd of more than 1,000 spectators that had gathered in California's Central Valley to watch it come down, officials said.

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The crowd gathered at 6 a.m., some sleeping in their cars overnight, in the nearby parking lot of a Lowe's Home Improvement store inBakersfieldto watch the planned implosion of the steam power plant owned by the public utility Pacific Gas and Electric that had been decommissioned for decades.

After buildings came down in a fiery crash, a police officer heard a man screaming for help and saw that his leg had been blown off.

"It was a piece of shrapnel that came flying out of the explosion and came across and went through a couple of chain link fences," said police Lt. Scott Tunnicliffe.

The 44-year-old victim also had major injuries to the other leg, and may lose it also, Tunnicliffe said. Officials declined to release his name.

Four other spectators were treated for minor injuries, said Kern County Fire engineer Leland Davis. All of the injured spectators were standing beyond a perimeter set up to ensure public safety, Davis said.

Fred Garten, 49, was standing behind the perimeter when a piece of metal roughly the size of a household door came flying at him and grazed his right leg, leaving his socks and shorts splattered with blood.

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