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With the warmer weather in store, now's the time many homeowners look to contract with a paving agency for their driveways. But, the Better Business Bureau is warning people to be aware of scammers.

The BBB has heard from customers in the Albany and Syracuse areas who gave money up front to a man going door to door offering to pave their driveways and the work was not finished.

The Bureau says to be aware of companies that knock on your door and claim to have leftover materials from another job and offer bargain prices.

Also, watch out for companies who are out of state, push you to make a decision, offer no contract, require cash-only sales and of course, deals that seem too good to be true.

For scam alerts, tips and other information visit the Better Business Bureau's website.

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Updated: Thursday, June 5 2014, 12:13 AM CDT Reported by: Chris Nallan Contributor: Lea Jolan (LJWilson@SBGTV.com)

"Very cheated, I feel like they just took money out of our wallet, they stole from us," said Patricia Robinson, who is a victim of a paving scam in Adams County.

What seemed to be a good deal to Patricia became a criminal act in her own driveway.

"They showed up at our door, they said they were in the area, work was slow, they were wondering if they could work on our driveway," she said.

This shoddy deal ended up costing nearly $900 and left the Robinson family with a rocky, sticky mess instead of a smooth asphalt driveway.

"I don't know what it's going to cost, but certainly if we're not able to get back what we paid, we got to pay probably around $3,000 for a good quality job," said Robinson.

After the driveway was completed, problems quickly surfaced 24 hours later. Patricia called the number shown on this receipt. At this point she knew she was scammed.

"He kept telling me that you know, it's going to harden, everything's going to set, it's going to settle, it's going to flatten out and I said how can that be when I have all these loose pieces," said Robinson.

A representative of a local paving company who is aware of this type of scam gives tips on what you need to keep in mind when looking for a contractor:

Find a local trusted contractor, someone by word of mouth that you hear about Make sure they are licensed Note the license plates on the vehicle, out-of-state plates could be out to scam.

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The building that once housed the Billings Public Library is coming down slowly, almost as if brick by brick.

The structure now resembles a war-torn building instead of what the space is intended to be, a parking lot.

Disagreements between the contractor, Jackson Contractor Group, and demolition subcontractor LM Excavating have brought the project to a halt.

Jackson Contractor Group Vice-President Greg Hebner said the subcontractors deviation from the original demolition plan is part of what caused the delay.

They moved away from the demolition plan and we stopped the demolition for now, Hebner said. The project will move forward once they resubmit a demolition plan and it is approved.

LM Excavating had no comment Thursday.

In addition to the disagreement, unidentified materials found in the demolition remnants needed further testing, such as for asbestos. Hebner said the company is working with the City of Billings to properly dispose of the materials.

Once the testing is done, the demolition should be able to move forward.

Hebner hopes the new plan will be submitted by the end of next week so demolition can resume.

All of the unknowns should be uncovered and we should move forward as planned, Hebner said.

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Demolition of a building at San Antonio and Mesa in Downtown is underway. It's one of five buildings River Oaks Properties is demolishing on a Downtown block for possible future development. Preservationists had tried to get the city to stop the demolitions because they said the buildings are historically important for El Paso. ( Rudy GutierrezEl Paso Times)

Border Demolition & Environmental Inc., the company hired by River Oaks Properties to demolish five Downtown buildings, was ordered to pay $1,700 by the city for violating its demolition permits, city officials said.

Demolition began Tuesday night on a building at the corner of San Antonio and Mesa, one of five buildings River Oaks is demolishing on a Downtown block for possible future development.

Border Demolition's city-issued permits require demolition work be done between 6 a.m.-10 p.m. But the city received video evidence that demolition went beyond 10 p.m., Tuesday, Javier Camacho, a spokesman for the city Development Department said Thursday.

Mathew McElroy, director of the city Development Department, said Friday that initial information that River Oaks was fined was wrong. And the money Border Demolition has to pay is not technically a fine, he said. It's money Border must pay for city costs associated with the permit violation, he said.

Border Demolition officials have indicated the company will comply with all demolition permit requirements, McElroy said.

River Oaks officials did not respond Thursday to requests for comments.

A building at 109 S. Mesa has been torn down, and demolition continued Thursday on the adjacent building at 218 E. San Antonio. Three other adjacent buildings on San Antonio remained standing Thursday.

Meanwhile, historic building preservationists have turned their attention from fighting the River Oaks' demolitions to trying to get City Council to declare a moratorium on future demolition of Downtown buildings until a preservation plan can be put together.

"Ideally we would like a moratorium on the demolition of buildings over 100 years old Downtown until the city can appoint an independent commission" of experts who could review the city's Downtown historic district boundaries and buildings outside that district and devise a preservation plan, said Max Grossman, vice chairman of the El Paso County Historical Commission, a County Commissioners Court appointed body, and an assistant professor of art history at UTEP.

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Crews begin demolition to part of Royal University Hospitals parkade to make room for the new Childrens Hospital of Saskatchewan.

SASKATOON The next step in construction of the new Childrens Hospital of Saskatchewan started Wednesday morning when crews began the demolition of part of the parkade at Royal University Hospital.

Around 14,000 square metres of the parkade needs to be demolished, including the skywalk, over the next two months to make room for where the new childrens hospital will be built.

This is an exciting milestone for the new hospital, said Jackie Mann, vice president of integrated health services for Saskatoon Health Region.

Todays demolition start brings us one step closer to putting shovels in the ground this September.

Prior to the start of demolition, a new pedestrian entrance from the parkade into RUH was opened to replace the skywalk.

Craig Ayers, the project director for the childrens hospital, said there was other preparation work that needed to take place at the construction site.

We have made significant roadway changes to the site, created a new helix ramp for the parkade and built an access road through the University of Saskatchewan campus to bring in construction materials and equipment, said Ayers.

The new Childrens Hospital of Saskatchewan is slated to open in 2017.

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A historic Uptown building that had been slated to come down, forcing at least three businesses to move, will stand for an indefinite time, now that the citys historic committee voted down the demolition.

The building, 48-56 East Park Place is in the citys historic district. Therefore, the citys Historic Architectural and Preservation Committee had to approve the demolition before it could move forward.

The Sigma Chi Foundation owns the building, in which the organization was founded. It had planned to demolish the back part, stating it was in disrepair. As a result, a number of businesses, including Bills Art Store and Nails Depot, were asked to move out of the building by the end of May.

Bills Art Store had already moved out, having found a new home near the Oxford Wal-Mart. Owner Barb Berry said she regretted having to leave because the store had deep roots at that location. All the same, she said, Im not going to gloat. Thats just mean. Its a done deal for me. I already had to move, so now well be in a better situation.

Patricia Loomis, a manager at Nails Depot, said she was not pleased with the whole affair. She had also been asked to move out but has been unable to secure a new location as of yet. She was granted a 30-day extension at the end of May, and shes not sure what will happen now.

Weve had no help in trying to find a place. This place is our only source of income as a family, she said.

At a meeting in May, the HAPC was unable to reach a decision on the matter and tabled the request. The body met again at a special meeting late in May, after some members inspected the building.

Some members were surprised to not see more damage and deterioration to structural portions of the buildings requested for demolition, stated the report on the meeting.

Because the building had not been declared a public nuisance, Sigma Chi had to meet at least two of five criteria in city code to demolish the building. The HAPC agreed that the cost to renovate the building was too high. However, the HAPC disagreed there was not an appropriate re-use planned for the property, because a significant portion of the land would turn into a vacant lot.

Bob Benson, a member of the HAPC, said that the buildings represented characters tic(s) of a typical small Ohio village, which would be forever lost with the demolition, according to the report.

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The former Bangor Police Department building on Court Street.

Posted June 06, 2014, at 4 p.m.

BANGOR, Maine Demolition crews will start tearing down Bangors gutted former police headquarters on Monday, the city announced Friday.

Police vacated the 73-year-old Court Street building in 2006 to move into the new Summer Street location.

The demolition process is expected to last several weeks. The project started in May when crews began pulling hazardous materials from the site to make it safe for demolition. The building is a shell.

The project is expected to cost about $1.1 million. The demolition itself will cost $400,000, and a $201,000 retaining wall will be built to prevent a portion of Court Street, which is stabilized by the building, from sliding downhill into the Kenduskeag Stream. The remainder is for remediation of hazardous materials and other work.

The city considered renovating the building and opening it for some other use, but that would have required extensive structural work and hazard abatements, bringing cost estimates in to the $20 million-$30 million range.

Instead, plans call for a roughly 40-space parking lot on top of the hill, potentially for use by county employees who work in the nearby former courthouse.

Court Street remains closed to through traffic Between Hammond and Boynton streets as crews replace sewer lines in the area. Only local traffic will be allowed to pass.

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