It's officially the end of an era at Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee. Demolition on the 45-year-old suburban mall, which closed its doors in 2024, began Thursday. Photos show fencing up across the property, with excavators breaking down huge buildings and walls. The village of West Dundee bought the mall property for $7 million
Cracking the Uncrackable (Original Article here: https://hub.demolitionassociation.com/Article/cracking-the-uncrackable) April 15, 2025 For nearly 90 years, the Portland Cement Company (PCA) campus in Skokie, Illinois, stood as a testament to innovation in concrete research and structural advancements. The facilities at this site were responsible for groundbreaking developments in concrete strength, precast applications and fire resistance — achievements
A former hotel in Prospect Heights is nearing the end of its $1.8 million demolition to make room for eight hangars at Chicago Executive Airport operated by the New York-based firm Sky Harbour. The 58-year-old hotel closed last summer. Its roughly 4 acres in Prospect Heights will be incorporated into the nearly 23-acre development
For nearly 45 years the 10-story office tower stood high above Interstate 90 in Rolling Meadows, a testament to the Northwest suburbs’ growing presence as a center of commerce in the 1970s. By Tuesday, it was nothing more than a large pile of rubble. Built in 1979 at 2550 Golf Road and one half of
Wilder Park’s open green space will grow following the approval to demolish the former Lizzadro Museum building later this summer. The Park Board approved the project at its Monday, April 10 meeting. The building is located at the southeast corner of the park and has been vacant since 2019. Removing the building will decrease the
A long-standing banquet hall at a busy intersection in Elk Grove Village is set to close at the end of the year and be torn down to make way for a warehouse. Avalon Banquets, 1905 E. Higgins Road, will be demolished and replaced with a one-story, 81,400-square-foot light industrial warehouse office building, according to plans
A nearly 100-year-old building in downtown Mount Prospect will be torn down to make room for a new commercial development. But the new structure will be built along the historic outlines of the Edward Busse Building at the corner of Northwest Highway and Emerson Street, said Nick Papanicholas Jr., president of Nicholas & Associates and
By Eric Peterson | on July 29,2020 Anticipated changes to the outskirts of Schaumburg's Woodfield Mall this summer include rezoning of the restaurant campus on the southeast corner of Golf and Meacham roads and the demolition of the eight-story office building just south of it. A demolition permit has been obtained for the vacant office building at
By Richard Mayer | on February 19, 2020 Photo of the progress made so far on Nicholas & Associates’ headquarters in the Kensington Business Center. In the next few months, Nicholas & Associates will move back to the company’s headquarters in Mount Prospect that’s doubling in size. According to President Nick Papanicholas, Jr., the company’s one-story 17,000 sq. ft.
A rendering shows plans for a 72,000-square-foot speculative industrial facility that Seefried Industrial Properties wants to building at 2100 S. Wolf Road. (Courtesy of Des Plaines) Des Plaines aldermen have recommended approval of a Cook County property tax incentive for a developer that wants to build a $4.4 million speculative industrial building on Wolf Road.
