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The Damen Silos — now at the center of demolition drama — have a colorful history Grain elevators were Chicago’s first skyscrapers, and they helped the city become an economic powerhouse.
The towering concrete silos that stood for decades at Palm Avenue and H Street are gone from the city's skyline. Well, mostly. A Fresno demolition company has spent the past 10 months clearing the ...
A June 27 public meeting is set to discuss the demolition plans for the more than century-old grain silos on the city's Lower ...
The huge concrete grain-elevator silos north of Interstate 80 near 34th Street in Omaha would face the wrecking ball under a plan ... Omaha metro area seeing huge surge in new apartment construction.
The first word in the name pays homage to the visible 200-foot-tall abandoned concrete grain silo in the middle of the site. The silo used years ago by the Gillette Grain Co. was featured in a ...
Some have speculated that the concrete could be something that was discarded and buried when the grain silos were built in 1915 and 1928, perhaps part of the foundation or a tunnel that extends ...
Grain silos are a fertile source of ... taking 30 days in May and involving concrete being poured continuously for 13 days over a ... Architecture Building and Construction Canada Hotel Housing.
*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. FAIRMONT, Neb. (AP) — A concrete grain silo in Fillmore County partially collapsed Tuesday, but no injuries were reported. One ...