Billed as one of the country's largest demolition sites, it was featured on the History Channel series "Boneyard" in 2007.
The terminal is seen as an essential step in what the South Carolina State Ports Authority, the project's developer, says will be a much larger demolition and mixed-use development project that will divide the Union Pier complex in two.
Not only is the hospital in the Greenwich Village Historic District, where activism sometimes seems the residents' favorite sport, but the proposal calls for the largest demolition and redevelopment in the Village in half a century.
She commends Darren Johnson's report Where Can We Build More Homes? which looks at various ways of adding to housing stock that don't entail environmental damage, large scale demolition or trampling over the wishes of local people.
It collapsed days after the president of one of the companies, a large Massachusetts demolition contractor, received an anonymous telephone call telling him to stay out of New York, according to the contractor and several other people briefed about the call.
He Shuzhong, founder and chairman of the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Centre, said while protecting the local population against the dangers of earthquakes is important, large-scale demolition is unnecessary.
Larger scale demolition of traditional terraces by government housing renewal projects has caused anger in Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire's former milltowns.
Even before the first spadeful of earth was turned, before the first boulder of Manhattan schist was blasted, a forest of exclamation points began sprouting with what was dubbed the city's largest individual demolition contract ever.
It is thought to be the first time any British city has explicitly set population growth as a goal.Rather than patching up areas like Benwell, the council is planning large-scale demolition of crumbling rented housing.
