Commercial Demolition
We take down stores, offices, warehouses, parking garages and mixed-use buildings across New Jersey. Concrete and metal go to recycling, and the lot is left graded and clean.
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Clifton is a mostly built-out city with little open land left. The city's 2025 housing plan counts just 216 vacant parcels out of 23,730. It also says most new single-family houses here were teardowns of older ones. So in Clifton, a new house usually starts when a demolition contractor takes the old one down.
TTL Services is a Paterson-based demolition contractor, and Clifton is part of our service area right next door. The two cities share a border, and Route 19 links them. We take down whole buildings here and haul the debris away, so the lot is ready for the next foundation. Call or text (201) 673-5470 to talk about a building in Clifton.
Tell us about the building or the site and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
The 2020 Census counted 90,296 people in Clifton, on about 11 square miles of land. The Census Bureau's survey puts the median year built for the city's homes at 1951. About seven in ten went up before 1960, and nearly a third before 1940. Fewer than one in ten were built in 2000 or later.
Nearly half of Clifton's homes are detached single-family houses, and about one in five sits in a two-family house. The city's one-family zones are set for lots of 5,000 to 9,375 square feet. About six in ten of the city's homes are owner-occupied.
Older houses can hold asbestos, so the city asks about it before a demolition permit. Our house demolition service takes down the whole house and breaks out the old foundation. Then the hole is backfilled and the lot graded for the builder.
The state's Uniform Construction Code requires a permit to demolish a structure. In Clifton, that permit comes from the Building Department at City Hall, under the city's construction official. The department posts a demolition form that lists what it wants first.
A plumbing permit covers capping the water and sewer at the curb. That permit must close before the demolition permit is released. The form also asks for a PSEG letter that the gas and electric are off. PSEG says that letter can take up to eight weeks, and the owner applies for it.
A Passaic Valley Water Commission letter covers the meter removal and water shutoff. The form lists a pest control letter showing no rodent infestation, plus an asbestos abatement letter. The owner or the owner's agent signs a demolition waiver. State law adds a New Jersey One Call notice at 811, at least three business days before work starts.
Clifton's highway business frontage lines Route 3 and the Route 46 and Piaget Avenue corridor. Other commercial strips follow Main Avenue, Allwood Road, Lakeview Avenue and Lexington Avenue. The city treats Main Avenue as its central business district, under its own redevelopment plan.
The city also has industrial zones, and its plan says Clifton's location draws warehousing and manufacturing. City policy favors reusing or rebuilding older commercial and industrial buildings that sit vacant. The plan points to the former Hoffmann-La Roche campus and the Black Prince Distillery as redevelopment examples.
Our commercial demolition work takes down retail and office buildings and loads out the debris. At old plants, our industrial demolition work breaks out heavy slabs and sends the steel to scrap recycling. The city's plan also notes deteriorating housing in older neighborhoods, Botany Village in particular. It says redevelopment there may be justified.
The city's plan maps the Garret Mountain area as steep ground, from the Paterson line to the Montclair line. Clifton treats a slope of 15 percent or more as steep. The plan calls for strict enforcement of the city's steep slope rules there.
NRCS soil maps put about three quarters of the city on slopes of 8 percent or less. Most of that ground is urban land mixed with Boonton soils, which formed in glacial till. Those soils carry a dense layer, called a fragipan, that slows water moving down.
FEMA flood maps put only about 2 percent of Clifton's land in the 1 percent annual chance flood zone. The mapped flooding sources include the Passaic River, the Third River, Weasel Brook and Wabash Brook. After a teardown, our site preparation and grading work sets the grade for the next building.
Communities and areas we serve around Clifton: Botany Village, Athenia, Delawanna, Main Avenue, Allwood Park, Albion Memorial Park, Lakeview Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Piaget Avenue, Garret Mountain, Route 3, Route 46.
Clifton ZIP codes served: 07011, 07012, 07013, 07014.
Clifton is part of our service area. We look at the job first, then put the quote in writing.
(201) 673-5470 We take down stores, offices, warehouses, parking garages and mixed-use buildings across New Jersey. Concrete and metal go to recycling, and the lot is left graded and clean.
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We take down factories and plants across New Jersey, old mill buildings included. Heavy concrete and structural steel are sorted out and sent to recycling.
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We take down whole houses and multi-family buildings across Paterson and North Jersey, foundation and all. The debris leaves in our trucks, and the lot is graded for the next foundation.
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We bid public demolition for New Jersey towns, counties, school districts and authorities, then take the buildings down. Public jobs are the main line of our work.
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We demolish structures a town has ordered down after a fire, a collapse, storm damage or a vehicle strike. We work under the order and leave the site stable.
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One contract covers the asbestos and the teardown. The licensed asbestos abatement contractor we work with does the abatement, then we take the building down.
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We load out the debris from our teardowns and site work and haul it in our own trucks. Concrete and metal go to recycling, and the lot is left clean.
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We dig the hole for the next foundation, after a teardown or on a cleared lot. We cut utility trenches too, and the extra dirt leaves on our trucks.
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We take a teardown lot or a raw lot and make it ready for the builder. Site preparation clears the ground first, then grades it to the plan.
Learn MoreReal reviews of our demolition and site work, 4 reviews on Google.
I needed a very thick concrete patio removed. After the first company I called packed up and quit after a few hours, Tailor showed up and got the job done in no time. Tailor really is a stand up guy and very trustworthy. Looking forward to working with them on future projects.
contractor was patience and finished work without disturbing and issues
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A few of the questions we hear most around Clifton. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us what has to come down and where it stands. Call or text (201) 673-5470 or send the form, and we will come look at the job.
Tell us about the building or the site and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.