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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Passaic fits about 70,500 people into roughly three square miles on the Passaic River. More than half of its homes went up before 1940. The city's master plan goals call for fixing vacant dwellings where practical, or demolishing and rebuilding them. On the Eastside, old factory buildings stand close together near the river.
TTL Services is a demolition contractor in nearby Paterson, and Passaic is part of our service area. The city sits about five miles from Paterson, down Main Avenue through Clifton. We take down whole buildings here and haul the debris away, so the lot is ready for what comes next. Call or text (201) 673-5470 to talk about a building in Passaic.
Tell us about the building or the site and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Passaic became a city in 1873, and its housing shows that age. The Census Bureau's survey puts the median year built for the city's homes at 1938. About three in four went up before 1960. Only about one in twenty was built in 2000 or later.
The city holds about 22,500 people per square mile. More than half of its homes sit in buildings with two to nine units. The city's 2013 master plan calls the R-3 zone, from Liberty Street to the Passaic River, its largest residential zone. It notes the zone's smaller lot sizes.
In 2023, Passaic told the state that 15 housing units were demolished, all in one- and two-family houses. Our house demolition work takes down the whole house and breaks out the old foundation. Then the cellar is backfilled and the lot graded to the city's rules.
The state's Uniform Construction Code requires a permit to demolish a structure. In Passaic, the application goes to the construction code office at City Hall, with the city's demolition checklist. The checklist wants proof that the gas and electric are cut off. It also wants the sewer capped and the water shut off under a plumbing permit.
Rodent baiting comes first, with proof from an exterminator. The owner or agent signs a letter that all asbestos has been or will be removed. Owners of adjoining properties get notice letters before the work. A wet demolition needs a hydrant meter permit from the fire department.
A recycling verification form names where the concrete and other debris go. Before the permit, the contractor posts an escrow that the city returns once it approves the finished work. Approval letters from the City Engineer and the city's Division of Health go to the construction official. If hazardous material turns up, the code stops the work until the right agency allows it.
Passaic's plan traces its industrial roots to the early 1900s, with many plants on the Eastside. Big rubber and wire plants grew there, drawn by the Passaic River. Their buildings went up close together, with little room for parking or large vehicles.
As industry changed, many of those buildings sat empty. The city's 2013 master plan describes contaminated former factory sites, many now large empty lots. In 1985, a fire destroyed about 25 acres of dense industrial property on the Eastside. The city later wrote a redevelopment plan for that land.
The Eastside has its own redevelopment plan, and so do the Main Avenue and Market Street areas. In 2020, the City Council named about 294 parcels around Market Street an area in need of rehabilitation. Our industrial demolition work breaks out heavy slabs and sends the steel to scrap recycling. When an old building shares a wall, the city's code wants the building next door left safe.
The Passaic River runs along the city's eastern edge. The city's plan puts about 489 acres in a flood hazard area, mostly east of Route 21 along the river. Citing FEMA data, it counts 67 buildings in the 1 percent annual chance floodplain. Another 336 sit in the 0.2 percent zone.
The remnants of Hurricane Ida hit New Jersey on September 1, 2021. Passaic County was part of the federal disaster declaration that followed. The city's plan says flooding from the Passaic during Ida renewed work on long-standing river flooding. It also notes that during Ida, the river reached properties outside the identified flood hazard areas.
The city's plan describes a flood control project covering 7,000 feet of McDonald Brook channels. It also expects the state's Blue Acres program to look at buyouts of flood-prone properties along the river. After a demolition, our site preparation and grading work brings the lot back to grade. Passaic's code wants the finished lot to drain toward the street.
Communities and areas we serve around Passaic: Eastside, Main Avenue, Market Street, Monroe Street, Lexington Avenue, Broadway, River Drive, Route 21, Dundee Canal, Dundee Island Park, Pulaski Park, Third Ward Memorial Park.
Passaic ZIP codes served: 07055.
Passaic 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.
contractor was patience and finished work without disturbing and issues
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A few of the questions we hear most around Passaic. 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.