Revere Sugar Demolition Underway

The demolition of the iconic Revere Sugar factory in Red Hook by Thor Equities and its CEO Joe Sitt is underway. It has started, not with a big boom, but with a series of little bangs. A small work crew was on the site yesterday and the sounds of banging and sawing were coming from inside the factory. At one point, workers were seen climbing the iconic conical dome. Demolition workers were stripping the metal facade from the building, leaving the steel skeleton exposed. You can see the results of their work in the photo above. Two stories and several hundred feet of the base of the building around the cone around the orange machine has been stripped of its exterior. There were about a half-dozen employees on site yesterday doing demolition prep work. We will have more photos and video both here and on Curbed tomorrow.

Looks like there will be quite a bit of low-key work before any dramatic demolition occurs. The prep work reminds us of something we saw recently when huge warehouses were demolished to make way for a new soccer stadium in Harrison, NJ. The buildings were stripped of their metal facades and interiors, leaving steel skeletons that were then demolished.