Air Conditioning Theft

Air Conditioning Theft  | The demand for copper is creating an increase in copper-theft crimes. Theft of air conditioning units has become increasingly popular and is on the rise because of the copper and aluminum contained within them. There’s number one and number two copper, a lot of copper on our air conditioners is number one copper and the ac units will be taken to a local scrapping company.  (more…)

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Albany, NY Demolition

Albany, NY Demolition | Fireworks & Colored Smoke

An interesting combination of fireworks and colored smoke fill the Albany, NY area this past weekend. The 11-story Wellington Hotel Annex that dates back to the 1920s comes down as fireworks explode to make way for a new $66 million convention center. (more…)

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Selling Homes for $1 Instead of Demolition

Many old homes in Buffalo, N.Y., are abandoned and targeted for demolition. Through the city’s Urban Homestead program, preservation activists are getting residents to buy such homes for $1 each and promise to renovate and move into them. (Alana Semuels / Los Angeles Times)

Selling Homes for $1 Instead of Demolition | Buffalonians are purchasing homes for just one dollar through a city program, while at the same time helping bring blighted properties in neighborhoods back to life.

Matthew Newton purchased a home that’s over 200 years old on the east side. Newton purchased the home through Buffalo’s Urban Homestead Program three and a half years ago. The floors were collapsing into the basement, windows were boarded up and there were no standard systems like electricity.

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109-year-old Wisconsin “Red Church” Demolished

 

Peace Lutheran Church, in Baldwin, Wis., was torn down this past week.

A stately red-brick church that towered over a small town in western Wisconsin for 109 years has reached the end of its days, despite an effort by some in the community to save it.

According to a published report, the vote was 113 to 19 to “deconstruct” the 109 year-old local landmark known as “Old Red Brick Church”. Since 1905, the building has stood just south of I-94 on the west side of Highway 63 and the intersection of CTY N in rural Baldwin. The same report also states there are to be some provisions to the motion allowing for salvage and preservation of the salvaged items.

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Steel Wire Stolen: Railroad in Luzerne County

Steel Wire Stolen from Railroad

Scrap yard workers tell us the payout was only a fraction of the damage that was done.

Surveillance video led police to the duo accused of stealing 900 feet of wire from Reading and Northern Railroad.

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Silver Coins Found during Home Demolition

Silver Coins Found during Home Demolition | Officials believe that the silver coins may have been hidden in the walls of the home before the previous owner even moved in.

“The house was full of Florida junk,” neighbor Jim Tuck said Friday about the 60 pounds of silver coins discovered in the recently demolished North Minnesota Avenue home.

It was like a treasure hunt … the more you dug the more you found,” said Melissa Howes of city code enforcement, laughing about the scramble to find more. “We thought we might be able to keep it like finders keepers, but it was city property.”

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Possible Demolition of Episcopal Church Home (ECH), Buffalo NY

Possible Demolition of Episcopal Church Home (ECH), Buffalo NY | The Episcopal Church Home, represented for most Buffalonians for over a century by the iconic landscape of the Hutchinson Chapel and Thornton Memorial Hall, is under imminent threat of demolition.

The Episcopal Church Home Complex is comprised of five contiguous parcels on 3.5 acres. There are six buildings on site. Two of the structures, Thornton Hall and the Hutchinson Chapel, have been determined to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. They were designated as local landmarks in 1980. Thornton Hall was built in 1905. The architect was Henry Osgood Holland. The Hall replaced an orphanage on the site that was built in 1866. The Hutchinson Chapel of the Holy Innocents was designed by William Archer and erected in 1895.

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Compadre Stadium Demolition

Landmark Baseball Diamond being demolished to make way for new homes.

The ballpark opened in 1986 as spring home of the Brewers, replacing the team’s home in Sun City. It was only home to the Brewers until 1998, when the Brewers shifted spring operations to Maryvale Baseball Park.

Standard Pacific Homes — which has a dozen housing developments in the Phoenix market — is the builder for the Compadre site.

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Relics from mine yard stolen

Tom Malloy, reclamation manager for Butte-Silver Bow, shows where thieves arduously torched off part of an electric hoist motor at the Mountain Con Mine. After years of pillaging, many of the city’s historic mine yards are in shambles.

Thieves’ loot historic Mountain Con Mine and sell artifacts for scrap

Thieves are pilfering irreplaceable relics out of Butte mine yards to sell for pennies. “It’s like going to the Gettysburg battlefield and stealing a cannon for scrap metal,” said Tom Malloy, reclamation manager for Butte-Silver Bow. “These are historical artifacts that can’t be replaced at any cost,” he said.

As Malloy strolled through the Mountain Con engine room on the Butte Hill last Wednesday, he pointed out all the missing parts. Copper wiring has been pillaged and various machines ravaged for parts to sell to salvage yards. Thieves take copper wire, steel and brass machine parts — things like switches and rods. The metal likely ends up in scrapyards, sold for a few dollars a pound at most.

Crews are working to restore the exterior of the Mountain Con and hope to increase the security at the same time. C. Davies Enterprises was on hand Wednesday repainting and restoring large window screens as part of the ongoing project.

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Distributor for Armstrong & Shipco Pumps

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Distributor for Armstrong & Shipco Pumps.

Distributing and providing replacement parts for both lines.

BUFFALO, NY | AUGUST 04, 2014 – Moley Magnetics, Inc. Industrial Apparatus Division is excited to announce that we are an authorized distributor for both Armstrong and Shipco Pump Companies.

We are confident that our partnership will provide enhanced service for our electrical apparatus customers by offering an expanded line of products and local stock for quicker deliveries. Moley Magnetics is committed to providing exceptional customer service and we expect that this will be enriched as we work together with the teams at Armstrong & Shipco.

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