Ray Barker II of North Branch, Michigan, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that his former employer, the Genesee County Community Action Resource Department (GCCARD), put workers and the community in danger while weatherizing homes last year. Barker claims he was fired after alerting his superiors to the dangers of using powerful equipment to uproot [...]
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Michigan Man Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Former Employer
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Former Paper Building Could Come Down Next Spring
Dayton city officials said recently that a company has purchased the old Howard Paper Company building. Garrett Day, LLC of Lexington, Kentucky bought the asbestos-ridden building that has become a home for vagrants and drug activity. Demolition will begin next spring following asbestos abatement. The city will request a grant from the Clean Ohio Revitalization [...]
Former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Building Comes Down
Once the largest independently owned steel operation in the country, Youngstown Sheet & Tube closed its Brier Hill, Ohio operations in the late 1970s. Now the building that headquartered the industrial company is coming down piece by piece, starting with the sandstone slab bearing the company name. Workers tore out the asbestos materials from inside [...]
Campus Housing On Former Air Force Base Gets Serious Renovations
The State of Texas acquired the James Connally Air Force Base some time ago, and plans were in place to turn it into a technical institute. Right now, the focus is on 500 houses that once were military housing and today serve as Brazos Community housing. Using a $7 million bond, the state is renovating 200 [...]
Former Baltimore Inmates To Take Part In Pilot Deconstruction Program
The Barclay Deconstruction and Reclamation pilot project is designed to take on two of the city’s most pressing problems: decrepit abandoned buildings and large numbers of released former convicts. Baltimore, Maryland puts more people in jail per capita than any other city in America—more than 4,000 every day, most of them for minor drug-related offenses—with [...]
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Former Power Plant Workers At Risk For Mesothelioma Cancer
The use of asbestos-containing materials within power plants was a common occurrence throughout much of the 20th century. Before the 1980s, the insulating and fireproofing capability of asbestos is what made the mineral an ideal substance to use in a variety of ways. Areas within power plants that may have contained these hazardous materials included [...]
Asbestos Removal To Take A Year At Former Owens Corning Building
The City of Toledo, Ohio is in the process of a $44 million redevelopment plan, but the vacant former Fiberglas Tower was not intended to be part of the plan. City officials vetoed a proposal to loan the owners $10 million to renovate the skyscraper, but the subject was recently put back on the table [...]
Former Denver Marriott Comes Down
The former Marriott Hotel at Hampden Avenue and Interstate 25 in Denver, Colorado was demolished in June. Alpine Demolition wrecking crews rolled out on June 21 to begin demolishing the building, which was built in 1973. When the building went up, it was at the edge of town, but today the town has grown out [...]
Former Pennsylvania Hospital Site Sells For $505k Due To Remediation Costs
The former Mayview State Hospital in South Fayette, Pennsylvania was appraised at $7.8 million without considering the $13 million cost of remediation. The 39 buildings on the property are 40 to 100 years old and are full of asbestos materials and lead paint. Asbestos is a toxic substance that can cause serious illnesses like mesothelioma [...]
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Demolition Bids Come In Below Estimates For Former Ohio Office Building
A $631,343 Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grant was awarded to the City of Youngstown for the demolition and remediation work necessary to take down the decaying Youngstown Sheet & Tube office building. Most of the bids on the work surprised officials by coming in for considerably less than the estimated cost of asbestos remediation, cleanup [...]
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