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Published: Thursday, 7/3/2014 - Updated: 18 hours ago

BY CHIP TOWNS BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

Demolition will begin soon at the Starlite Plaza shopping center in Sylvania, making room for a new ProMedica Health and Wellness Center.

The Lathrop Co. has been chosen as the construction manager for the project at 5700 Monroe Street.

A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for July 16.

The ProMedica facility will be on the site of the former Churchills supermarket, which was built in 1971. It later became a Farmer Jack, and then a Bassetts Market. It has been vacant since 2007.

Two buildings on the east side of Starlite, a restaurant occupied by Ralphies Sports and Drink Eatery, and a retail building occupied by Daves Performance Footgear and the Buckeye Store and More, will remain. An older retail building that abuts Daves will be demolished.

Also scheduled to be demolished are a 60,000-square-foot strip center on the west side of Starlite Plaza and a 37,000-square-foot strip center behind the former grocery store.

One of the few tenants left in the parts of the complex that is scheduled to be demolished is Sewing and Vacuum Express. The company previously said it had a two-year lease and had no plans to leave.

On Wednesday, Linda Schweer, one of the owners, said they were studying their options. She said they were putting some numbers together to present to ProMedica.

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The collapse of the upper storey on the demolition site of the former Vanguard school caused quite the commotion last week.

Demolition of the former Vanguard High School resumed Wednesday after the Canada Day holiday under the supervision of a workplace safety board (CSST) engineer following last weeks premature collapse of the upper storey of the Metcalfe Avenue building.

Both Metcalfe and Hillside avenues will be closed to traffic as on-site crew now demolishes the south side of the building.

According to Westmounts departing director general Duncan Campbell, the site is secure after a beam on the building's top floor gave in on June 25.

After closing the street off to circulation to prevent any further damage, it was deemed safe to resume the demolition. According to Campbell, the CSST and the fire department said there was no risk in letting the workers come back on site after analyzing the scene.

The CSST inspector was on-site just before the upper floor caved in. The inspector, said Marie-France Vermette of the CSST, had stopped demolition crews just before the collapse from working without the proper engineer-issued certificate. According to Vermette, the demolition of the top floor wasnt being executed in accordance to the regular "roof to ground" method and therefore a certificate was needed.

Real estate developer Btimo, in partnership with the Fond de Solidarit (FTQ), began transforming the former high school into a six-storey building, which will house 53 condos, lofts and townhouses to match the underground park spaces, two weeks ago.

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Though a cloud of dust hovered over the work site following the collapse, Campbell assured the air was void of chemicals.

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Dunedin's Princes St could be in line for a facelift after a Christchurch developer won a six-year battle to demolish a group of buildings inside a protected townscape.

Luke Dirkzwager, of Prista Apartments, has been granted Environment Court approval to demolish the buildings at 372-392 Princes St and 11 Stafford St, making way for a mixed-use retail and apartment development.

However, three of the buildings' four facades have been spared the wrecking ball, and would instead form a section of the new development, as part of a compromise with heritage advocates.

That would mean the retention of the facades at 380, 386 and 392 Princes St, while the buildings behind them - dating back to between the 1860s and 1913 - would be demolished.

The largest building, at 372-378 Princes St, would be removed with its facade, despite dating back to 1879.

Details of the deal were contained in an Environment Court consent order agreed to by all parties, made public yesterday. It ends a long-running battle over the development dating back to 2008.

Mr Dirkzwager is overseas and could not be reached yesterday for comment about a start date, but the revised consent approved by the court gave him until 2021 to advance the project.

Heritage advocate Peter Entwisle, who was involved in negotiations over the project, said he had been told the development was unlikely to proceed for at least five years.

Mr Dirkzwager was now said to be busy with other projects in Christchurch, and had sought an extended consent deadline, Mr Entwisle said.

While welcoming the decision to spare three of the facades, Mr Entwisle was disappointed some of the city's original Gold Rush-era buildings would be lost.

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LAKEWOOD, Ohio Excavators Wednesday morning began knocking down the walls of the former McKinley Elementary School on West Clifton Boulevard at Detroit Avenue.

However, the demolition came to a sudden halt after several minutes when a hydraulic line ruptured on the larger of two excavators used for the work. A replacement part was ordered, and demolition will resume tomorrow morning, said Dave Marko, owner of Marko Demolition and Crushing LLC, of Genoa.

A handful of nearby residents watched as the excavators started punching holes in the brick walls and clouds of dust arose.

"My sister went to school here when she was growing up," said Michelle Bird, a Lakewood resident who watching from outside a fence keeping the public away from the demolition area. "It's a part of history."

A young mother, Sasha Douglas, stopped by with her son, Pierce, and daughter, Boston, in a tandem stroller.

The family lives in an apartment where the children caught a glimpse of the demolition work and wanted to come for a closer look, she said.

"They're at an age where they love watching this kind of equipment," she said.

For the past three weeks, crews have been removing asbestos and cleaning out the interior of the building. Windows, boilers, metal, and other recyclable materials were removed prior to the exterior demolition. The brick also will be recycled.

McKinley Elementary was decommissioned as a school building in 2008. The city bought the former school in 2013 for $100 with plans to demolish the building and sell the land to a developer for a residential development.

The city and school district will split the demolition costs and the schools will receive any profit from the sale of the property to a developer after the city recoups its expenses.

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People as well as cars collided Wednesday night during the demolition derby at the Lincoln County Fair.

Lincoln County Sheriff Curt Folger said a disagreement that apparently started over the car-wrecking competition escalated, and 10 to 15 people eventually joined a scuffle on the track.

Most of them were trying to break up the fight, Folger said.

"You had three or four people fighting, and then you had seven or eight others who rolled in there trying to stop it," he said.

At least two people were arrested and a teenager was cited after the dust cleared, the sheriff said. The adults probably would be charged with third-degree assault.

Folger said an investigation is continuing to determine exactly what happened. The altercation apparently began among some people who are related to each other, he said.

"Basically, the people who were fighting are cousins," he said. "There is still an investigation going on about what started the fight. But right now, we don't have all the information."

According to initial reports, a firefighter and a deputy sheriff were struck while trying to break up the fracas. No one was seriously hurt.

"I think it's gotten blown out of proportion," Folger said Friday. "It wasn't what it sounds like it was."

The outburst occurred about 11 p.m., during the demolition derby's next-to-last event, the sheriff said.

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On 30 June, the government launched a prospectus (12-page / 68 KB PDF) inviting councils to express their interest in becoming 'Right to Build vanguards', to test different approaches to the scheme before a consultation on extending it nationwide.

According to the prospectus, the scheme will "give people with a serious interest in building their own home a right to a plot from their local authority".

The scheme will require authorities to "open and promote a register of prospective custom builders" in order to gauge local demand for custom building, the prospectus said. The government is yet to decide on the eligibility requirements for registering an interest to custom build, but is considering opening eligibility to "those who are resident in the local authority area and potentially also those with a direct family connection to the area", the prospectus said.

In response to registrations of interest, authorities will have to offer "a sufficient number of serviced plots" of land, from their own landholdings or belonging to other landowners , for sale "at market value" within "a reasonable period of time", the prospectus said.

The scheme forms part of the government's wider proposals to boost the custom build sector and the announcement follows the launch last week of a prospectus (24-page / 179 KB PDF) inviting bids for a share of 150 million in loans towards the release of plots of land for custom build housing in England.

"I believe that government should help anyone who wants to build their own home to find a plot of land to build on", said Boles in a statement. "Becoming a Right to Build vanguard offers councils a way to help local people get a place to live which is designed and built locally."

The deadline for submitting expressions of interest in taking part in the pilot scheme is 31 July.

Successful applicants will be required to open and publicise registers by 31 October and to begin identifying and securing plots by 31 January 2015.

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