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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Downtown Hackensack is being rebuilt lot by lot. The city's Downtown Rehabilitation Plan for the Main Street area covers 163 acres on 39 city blocks. Older buildings there come down to make room for apartments over shops. Each teardown happens close to busy sidewalks and occupied buildings.
TTL Services is a demolition contractor in Paterson, and Hackensack is part of our North Jersey service area. As a demolition contractor in Hackensack, we take down whole buildings for developers, general contractors, towns and property 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 the city.
Tell us about the building or the site and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
The city adopted its Downtown Rehabilitation Plan in 2012 to remake the Main Street area as a walkable, mixed-use downtown. The plan takes in 389 properties. The city's 2020 master plan review counted more than 4,000 new housing units approved, built or in design there. Main Street now runs two ways again, with new sidewalks and street trees.
Many of those apartments rose where older buildings stood. The city's 2024 year-end report lists Main Street sites where demolition was done or due to start. In 2018 the city also created a second rehabilitation area of 238 parcels in its health care district.
Our commercial demolition work on a downtown lot starts with the street and the buildings next door. The state code requires the work to protect adjoining properties and public sidewalks. Multi-story buildings come down in a planned sequence with excavators. Concrete and steel go to recycling, and the rest goes to disposal.
Hackensack is the Bergen County seat and one of New Jersey's oldest cities. The Dutch first settled it as a trading post in 1639, and the early village centered on The Green. The city's master plan names declining older neighborhoods as a problem that redevelopment can help address.
The Census Bureau's survey puts the median year built at 1969, with about 7 in 10 homes built before 1980. Half of all homes sit in buildings with 20 or more units. About one in five is a detached single-family house. The master plan places single-family neighborhoods west of Railroad Avenue, past the downtown high-rises.
Older houses and small apartment buildings come down when an owner rebuilds, or after a fire leaves them unsafe. Our house demolition work takes down the whole structure and breaks out the old foundation. Then the hole is backfilled and the lot is graded for the next build.
New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code requires a permit to demolish a structure. In Hackensack, that permit comes from the construction official in the Department of Building, Housing and Land Use. Its Building Inspection division handles construction permits and inspections.
Every utility that served the building signs a release before the permit is issued, and adjoining owners get written notice. PSEG, the city's gas utility, says its removal letter can take up to eight weeks. The owner or agent also confirms that asbestos which could crumble will be abated first. A New Jersey One Call notice at 811 goes in at least three business days ahead.
The city's own code says a building with rats or insects is treated before demolition begins. Digging in the sidewalk or street needs a separate city excavation permit. That form asks for police traffic coverage first. The construction office has the final word, and its forms can change.
Hackensack runs from about 3 feet to 120 feet above sea level, with its low ground along the Hackensack River. The city's master plan says Superstorm Sandy flooded parts of downtown and much of the waterfront in 2012. Areas around Coles Brook often flood in heavy rain.
FEMA's flood maps put about 15 percent of the city's land in the 1 percent annual chance flood zone. Each lot's map panel decides. The master plan notes a 50-foot building setback from the river. For a new building in the flood plain, the city's checklist asks for an elevation certificate.
The federal soil survey maps about 59 percent of the city as urban land. That is its term for ground under buildings and pavement. Much of the rest is well-drained Dunellen soil, with some filled ground. Our foundation excavation work digs the hole for the next building and hauls the spoils away.
Communities and areas we serve around Hackensack: Downtown Main Street, The Green, Prospect Avenue, State Street, River Street, Essex Street, Anderson Street, Passaic Street, Hackensack Avenue, Polifly Road, Railroad Avenue, Kinderkamack Road.
Hackensack ZIP codes served: 07601.
Hackensack 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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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.
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A few of the questions we hear most around Hackensack. 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.