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GRAND RAPIDS, MI Demolition has begun on a pair of century-old buildings downtown.

Construction crews began work Sunday morning to tear down the buildings at 35 and 41 S. Division Ave., where a grassy lot will be soon.

The Historic Preservation Commission unanimously approved the request to demolish the two buildings in July, after engineers concluded there was no salvaging the structures.

Early in the year, city officials had a barricade placed around the buildings to protect pedestrians from the potential danger of a crumbling exterior.

The demolition is set to end in time for the start of ArtPrize on Wednesday.

The work comes as part of a decision by longtime owners Richard and William VanGessel, and Jim Heeringa, to sell the buildings to Rockford Construction and SIBSCO LLC, a Secchia family holdings company.

William VanGessel is Rockford CEO Mike VanGessel's cousin.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Demo crews were out Sunday to begin the process of knocking down two buildings on Division Ave. deemed structurally unsafe by city officials.

The buildings, 35 and 41 Division Ave. have been visibly leaning for quite some time forcing crews earlier in the year to place barricades around the sidewalk in the area out of fear falling bricks and other debris could injure people walkingpast the site.

You can see how its leaning, the foundation it bad and so theyve got no other choice other than to tear it down, said John McGill who was worried the space will now just become a vacant plot of land.

Sunday morning as crews began demolition, a small crowd gathered across the street to watch history fall to the ground.

It will clean up the neighborhood a tremendous bit, Barbara Kadrovach said. Itll be good to come down because a lot of homeless people go in there and hideout.

Rockford Development has been contracted for the demolition and city engineers say the plan is to have the project completed in time for the start of ArtPrize on Wednesday.

Its a demolition Bradley Hartwell says is a long-time coming of a building her refers to as the leaning towers of Grand Rapids.

Its been kind of a security hazard and a fall hazard so itll be good to be safe again, he said.Im excited to see what will happen next.

In July, the Grand Rapids Historical Preservation Committee approved demolition of the two buildings that have stood on the corner of Division Ave. and Weston for more than a century.

It is problematic and it has the potential to be more problematic,city engineer Mark De Clercq told FOX 17 in July.

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Mixed emotions flooded over the faithful gathered Saturday outside the 85-year-old Fifth Ward building that once housed Wheatley High School and E.O. Smith Junior High.

Alumni got a chance to salute their schools one last time before the Houston Independent School District demolishes the building to make way for a new campus for the Young Men's College Preparatory Academy.

"I was just really floored when they announced that all the board members had voted to demolish this school," said Paula Ransom Franklin, a 78-year-old alumna of E.O Smith Junior High. "I thought about all the days that I walked through this school. There's so much history here. I just hate to see the history demolished. There are spirits on this campus that will never be deleted."

On Thursday, the HISD school board settled a lawsuit with alumni and Fifth Ward leaders to demolish the school and build a new school in its place, using old bricks and materials from the original building.

The project would cost the district another $1 million to complete, but the new school would have some of the same architectural designs as did the historic building.

'Deeply rooted'

Franklin, who attended E.O. Smith when she was just 11 years old, said she thinks politics played a major role in deciding the future of the school.

"I believe that the representatives did not do what they could have done to help us," she said. "I feel that they did not have the connection that we have to this school."

Charles Cook, who went to E.O. Smith in 1970, said that his family has strong ties to the building going all the way back to the early 1930s. He said that it is a tragedy that the school will be demolished.

"I was following a family legacy by attending here," he said. "My family tree is here. My father, my mother, aunts, uncles ... Wheatley Knights runs deep... Purple runs deep in my blood. We're deeply rooted in Phillis Wheatley."

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The demolition of some buildings closest to the parking garage at the former hospital site on Witherspoon Street is planned to begin as early as Thursday, Sept. 4.

Demolition work cannot begin until an internal inspection of an old incinerator drain line has been completed, said authorities. If everything goes as planned, the inspection will occur next Tuesday, said Municipal Engineer Bob Kiser.

AvalonBay, the developers who plan a 280-unit residential complex at the site, will hold a neighborhood meeting at the municipal building on Witherspoon Street on Sept. 3 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. regarding the demolition process. All neighborhood residents are invited to attend.

The Engineering Department expects Yannuzzi Corporation workers to finish removing non-asbestos materials inside the buildings for recycling and disposal sometime next week, authorities said.

The workers had removed 42-100 cubic yard dumpsters of recyclables from the site as of Aug. 25, authorities said.

Yannuzzi workers had removed 40 40-cubic-yard dumpsters of asbestos materials from the site, authorities said on Monday.

Also, Eisco Environmental workers had previously removed all six underground fuel storage tanks and piping, authorities said, and tested the soil in the area. Areas around four of the tanks were not in need of soil remediation, according to authorities.

After testing the areas surrounding the two 6,000-gallon heating oil tanks for a second time, benzo(a)pyrene at a concentration of 0.33 mg/kg was discovered in the soil, authorities said. This is above the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protections residential direct contact soil remediation standard of 0.2 mg/kg, authorities said.

Ecol-Sciences completed soil boring in the areas where the 6,000 gallon tanks had been located and determined additional soil needed to be removed from the eastern most 6,000-gallon tank, authorities said.

The removal of the soil was completed as of Aug. 18, according to authorities, and a new monitoring well was installed.

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Calgarys homes and communities shone at the annual provincial housing awards, with builders and a developer winning two of the three top Builder of the Year awards, as well as top community.

Reflecting the growth of Calgary and areas luxury home market, Albi Homes was named this years Ralph Scurfield Builder of the Year on Friday at the Canadian Home Builders Association-Albertas annual conference in Jasper.

Albi Homes had three finalists in the homes categories, and Albi Renova won two categories Renovation Under $200,000 for its Ranchlands renovation, and Renovation $200,000-$500,000 for the Rurral renovation.

Homes by Avi won Multi-family Builder of the Year, perhaps a nod to this citys interest in density. Avi Urban, its multi-family division, won Multi-family Apartment under $325,000 for Sawyer Silverado.

Calgary is also home to the community of the year. Hopewell won the Community Development award for Mahogany, a new community in the southeast that encompasses what will be the citys largest lake.

The Builder of the Year for small volume companies was taken home by Ashcroft Master Builder of Lethbridge, which won Single Family $310,000-$340,000 for Griffin.

Builder of the Year awards are presented for the best overall score in the competition.

Points are awarded for being in the top three finalists of each category, as well as how each home placed.

Further points were earned for safety, customer satisfaction survey results and volunteerism.

The builder with the most combined points won its division.

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To me, the man looked very old, but then I was very young.

The shop with boats in progress was fascinating. Best of all was the boat Ray bought.

The new wooden boat had a rocker bottom which helped to get it off Allegheny River rocks.

The bow was pointed and the sides arched in so the transom was narrower than the beam, which helped it slip through the water. All of this made it an ideal row boat for fishing on the river.

Our plan was to take the boat up-river to Warren, which is a pretty good distance. Ray had borrowed a small outboard motor so we didn't have to row all of the way.

Before we got through the second eddy, the motor quit running. We tried rowing and pulling, but that didn't work out. The boat went the rest of the way in the back of a pick-up truck.

We kept that boat chained to a tree in Warren, and it was stolen after about a year.

When Ray built a house on the bank of the river, he bought another boat just like it.

It was through these two boats that I gained a deep appreciation for wooden boats made by a serious boat craftsman.

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