Shopping Center Demolition Continues Next Week

As prepare to open in the , developers are working to demolish the vacant strip of the center as early as next week.

“[We’re doing] handwork to carefully disconnect the building from the building we’re keeping,” said Nate Raiber, director of development and acquisitions for Fedder Management Co., the shopping center’s operator.

Spaces in the shopping center’s vacant north strip will be cleared out with Bobcats this week, and a 60,000-pound excavator will begin to tear the building down next week, Raiber said.

started last year, with the taken down first. Tenants that remained in the strip had to before the rest of the building could be demolished.

Fedder is making moves at the shopping center, with the recent opening of the and the future openings of Big Lots on Sept. 23 and Planet Fitness in November. Big Lots is taking approximately two-thirds of a 50,000 square-foot space that once housed an Ames, with Planet Fitness taking the rest.