Two Bay Street buildings that have been giving the city of Springfield ongoing issues for years were torn down Wednesday by Associated Building Wreckers of Springfield.
The city demolished a blighted house at 116 Walnut St., on Thursday, in the Six Corners area, saying it expands efforts to reduce blight in neighborhoods and to continue the city's recovery from the 2011 tornado.
Thanks to the efforts of Mason Square neighborhood activists, a vacant home at 14 Dresden St, .which had become a haven for vagrants and drug activity, has fallen to the wrecking ball.
The Holy Trinity Parochial School in Greenfield, MA, has had its day in the sun. Built in 1929 by General Contractor George Reed of Greenfield, the school opened in 1930.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno held a press conference Wednesday against the backdrop of a large Associated Building Wreckers excavator crushing and removing charred debris from...
Demolition is scheduled to begin next week at the former Belchertown State School property, marking another milestone in plans for construction of a $15 million, 83-unit assisted living facility.
The walls came crumbling down Monday at the former HAPCO building on Main Street in the South End, praised as a continuation of revitalization efforts by residents and city officials.
Demolition began Monday at a vacant, fire-damaged house on Adams Street in the South End as part of a continuing effort by the city to combat blight in various neighborhoods.
Associated Building Wreckers were doing what its name implied Wednesday morning, wrecking the former Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity on Olympia Drive clearing the land for student housing.