Blog: Safety Complex Updates

Week 25: Central Wing Annex Interior Demolition Nearly Complete

As work is accelerating across the City's Public Safety Complex construction site, one task is nearly finished.

By the end of this week, contractor Environmental Abatement Inc. will have completed 98 percent of the Central Wing Annex interior demolition.

Its crews also will be continuing work with the interior demolition on the first two floors of the Women's Pavilion, as well as removing equipment from the top floor of the Professional Office Building.

Current view: Second floor, Women's Pavilion

Meanwhile, Renascent crews are using a high reach excavator to take down the patient tower in the Central Wing. Debris is being sorted and removed as more and more of the tower is leveled.

NEO Corp. is continuing abatement in the Marian Wing; workers are now up to the fourth floor.

Messer Construction is working on cutting utilities in the 1929 Building, which is being preserved and will be an anchor for future private redevelopment. Most of the northern end of the vacated St. Mary's Hospital campus is being demolished to create space for private investment and new construction.

A high reach excavator is making sure and steady progress in demolishing the Central Wing patient tower.

The City of investing $46.5 million to transform the North Knoxville site. Most of that, $40 million, is going to repurpose the Professional Office Building, Central Wing Annex and Women's Pavilion into a Public Safety Complex, which will house Police, Fire, City Court and Pension System operations. The former hospital parking garage will also be repurposed.

The remaining $6.5 million is dedicated to preparing the rest of the site for future private redevelopment.

Posted by evreeland On 10 August, 2020 at 6:30 PM