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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Fort Lee sits on top of the Palisades at the George Washington Bridge. Most of its homes are in apartment buildings, and many of those are high-rises. Between them stand older one- and two-family houses, many on sloping ground. A demolition contractor in Fort Lee takes those houses down close to the street and the buildings next door.
TTL Services is a Paterson demolition contractor, and Fort Lee is part of our service area in Bergen County. We take down whole houses, garages and commercial buildings here for homeowners, builders, developers and public owners. Then we haul the debris away and leave the lot ready for the next foundation. Call or text (201) 673-5470 to talk through a building in Fort Lee.
Tell us about the building or the site and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Fort Lee is a borough of about 40,000 people, with 40,191 counted in the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau's survey puts the median year built for its homes at 1971. More went up in the 1960s than in any other ten-year span. Two of every three were built before 1980.
The borough's zoning map shows the mix. It runs from one-family and two-family zones to garden apartment, six-story and high-rise apartment districts. Nearly half of all homes sit in buildings with 50 or more units. Only about one in seven is a detached single-family house.
The state counted 36 housing units demolished in Fort Lee in 2022, 29 in 2023 and 30 in 2024. Nearly all stood in one- and two-family houses. Fort Lee made the state's top 20 list for those numbers in 2022 and 2024. The borough's 2001 master plan review already noted a growing number of residential teardowns.
The approach to the George Washington Bridge cuts the borough in two. Near the bridge sits Redevelopment Area 5, which follows a borough redevelopment plan from 2004. Two high-rise towers there hold about 450 apartments each, with a borough park between them. In 2020, the borough planned the final phase on four or five acres of vacant land by the bridge.
The zoning map marks other redevelopment districts too, plus downtown and corridor overlay districts. From 2022 to 2024, the state's reports show one to three nonresidential demolition permits a year here. They include offices and a retail building. Our commercial demolition work takes buildings like those down, sorts and recycles the debris and leaves the site clean.
New houses keep going up on the single-family streets. The Census Bureau's permit survey counted 33 new single-family homes authorized in the borough in 2024 and 37 in 2025. When a new house replaces an old one, the old foundation and slab have to come out too. Our house demolition work takes down the house, the garage and the old foundation, then backfills the hole.
New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code requires a permit to demolish a structure. In Fort Lee, the Building Department issues it as the borough's construction code office. The department posts a list of demolition permit requirements and has the final word on them.
The list asks for letters from the gas and electric utility and the water company. It also wants letters from an asbestos company and a pest control company. A licensed plumber caps the sewer under a sewer disconnect permit. South of Main Street, the borough's rule of thumb is that sanitary and storm sewers are combined, directly or indirectly.
Owners of adjoining properties get notice, and a temporary fence goes around the property. Work that disturbs more than 5,000 square feet needs a letter from the Bergen County Soil Conservation District. The borough code adds a set completion date and a bond that covers grading the lot. State law adds a New Jersey One Call notice at 811, at least three business days ahead.
The Palisades cliffs line the borough's east side. Fort Lee Historic Park sits on top, just south of the bridge. FEMA's 1 percent annual chance flood zone covers about 1 percent of the borough, a strip along the Hudson River. The harder questions here are rock and grade.
The NRCS soil survey maps much of the borough as Boonton soils mixed with urban land, often on slopes. About 15 percent of the land is mapped on slopes of 15 to 45 percent. About 6 percent is mapped as Boonton soils mixed with rock outcrop, where rock reaches the surface. A basement dug into that ground can take more time and more hauling than one on flat, open soil.
After the teardown, our excavation for the new foundation digs the hole and hauls the spoils away. Then we grade the lot for the builder. The state code expects the grades restored after a demolition, and we leave the site stable.
Communities and areas we serve around Fort Lee: Coytesville, Fort Lee Historic Park, Monument Park, Constitution Park, Main Street, Lemoine Avenue, Anderson Avenue, Palisade Avenue, Center Avenue, Hudson Terrace, Fletcher Avenue, Bridge Plaza North and South.
Fort Lee ZIP codes served: 07024.
Fort Lee 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.
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A few of the questions we hear most around Fort Lee. 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.