The Mall is Gone

For those of you that missed Thad's post over at The Back Post yesterday, the last remaining wall at Bannister Mall came down yesterday. The mall is now completely gone. Over the next few weeks and months, they'll be cleaning up the site and breaking up the pad and in ground walls. Here's my album for this week of the nothingness that is left.

Almost Gone

Very little remains of Bannister Mall, there is only part of Sears left. What remains is basically a shell and then the garage portion of Sears in the southwest corner. Other than that, the roof is basically all off and walls are coming down. I'd expect the rest of the mall to be down by next week. Here are all the pictures from today.

Demolition Continues

With soccer fans not just in KC, but around the US now talking about the new stadium renderings for the Wizards, the facility seems more realistic now to some. For that all to get built, though, the buildings currently there need to come down. It looks like the mall itself could be down within the next two weeks or so. The crew has basically ripped out the entire inside of Sears and is working on the outside now. Here is the full album for this week.

The Mall is Almost Gone

Here's your weekly dose of pictures from the old Bannister Mall site. As the weeks go by, there is less and less of the mall. This week, as you'll see, the mall portion of the building is almost gone. There is a small ledge and a wall and that's about all that remains of the mall portion of Bannister Mall. There is only 1 remaining entrance to the mall portion still standing. Most of Sears is still there, but the roof has come off most of that part of the building. Here is the entire album for this week.

Demolition Pictures

Here's your weekly update on how the demolition of Bannister Mall is going. Demolition continues to move on, and they're getting closer and closer to Sears. Today while I was out there, they were working full force on getting parts of the building down. In fact, I got to see one of the beams pulled out causing part of the roof to collapse while I was driving from one spot to another. Below you can see some before and after pictures of that piece of demolition. Here's the full album.

Demoltion Continues

Despite the delays in financing that will likely keep the stadium from opening in time for the 2011 season, demolition continues to bring down Bannister Mall. There are now only 2 entrances to the actual mall still there, as all the rest have come down. There are also a lot more holes as the crews work on getting Sears cleared out completely so that it can be brought down too. Here is the full album.

Demolition this Week

Here are this week's demolition pictures from out at Bannister Mall. Looks like they've started clearing out the inside of Sears, the last part of the mall that hasn't been cleared out. There are multiple holes in the building where debris has been pushed out. The outside work continues to come along as they push further and further towards Sears.

5/8 Demolition

Not a lot of exterior work seems to have been done this past week out at the Bannister Mall site, but they appear to be moving along on getting the rest of the inside of the mall cleared out. In fact, all the walls appear to be down and you can now see clearly all the way to the Sear's entrance inside the mall now. Here is the full album.

More Demolition

Here's your weekly update on the demolition of Bannister Mall. I didn't expect a whole lot of demolition to be done this week due to the amount of wet weather that we've had, but they've moved along pretty well. Dillard's is all the way down, and they're now just cleaning up what is left in that part of the mall. Inside the mall part, it looks like they may have the entirety of the actually mall part cleared out. Meaning the walls for each of the individual stores are down. Enjoy the pictures, here is the full album.

Demolition Photos

Made it out to Bannister Mall today to get some photos of the continued process of tearing down the mall. The crew is moving fairly quickly, as they have gotten a lot of Dillard's down now, and seem to have a lot more of the mall gutted. The progress is amazing to go through from my first set of photos of the demolition to now. Here is this week's gallery.

More Demolition

Here's your Friday update on how demolition is going out at the old Bannister Mall site. Demolition continues to move along, with a lot of working happening to the old Dillard's. There's now actually a gap between Dillard's and the mall. Here's the full album.

Demolition Pictures this Week

I know it's early this week with my demolition pictures, but it's with good reason. Thad and I were able to go inside Bannister Mall on Thursday to see the remains of what hasn't been cleared out just yet from the mall. And honestly, there isn't much left. Dillard's has been cleared out and there's now few huge holes in the south wall for the crew to get materials out. Part of the roof is also off of Dillard's. Inside the mall section, just outside Dillard's is where the part of the mall recognizable by people still ends. The area where Santa and the Easter Bunny used to sit, for those old enough to remember that is currently still there. Enjoy some of the pictures from inside the mall as well as outside here.

April Demolition

Demolition continues at the old Bannister Mall site. Not much external progress has been made this week, but you can definitely see the work being done. Another entrance to the mall is gone, as the middle mall entrance on the east side of the mall is now gone. They are also setting up on the south side of Dillard's for the little ceremony tomorrow where people can take picture of the slabs of concrete where their kids had put their hands years ago. The full album for this week is here.

Demolition Pictures

Demolition continues to move along at the old Bannister Mall site. The place where JC Penny's was is basically cleared now, and work has began on the inside of the old Dillard's store. Demolition is certainly moving along at a good pace. It's amazing going and seeing how far they've come on the demolition compared to how big the building was. They are getting very close to being half way done with the mall by this point, and by next week should be over halfway done with tearing the mall down. Here's the entire album from this week. The first picture some of you will recognize as the same Dillard's entrace that was used for the rally that was held at the mall over a year ago now.

More Demolition

I was able to kill a little bit of my excitement about the Wizards home opener tomorrow by stopping out at Bannister Mall to take a look at how the progress is coming on the mall. Demolition continues to move along, the old JC Penny's part of the building is now completely gone and demolition is now marching on towards the old Dillard's building. Speaking of the old Dillard's building, outside the south entrance to Dillard's there will be a small ceremony where people can take pictures of a concrete slab that has hand prints of kids from the time the store opened. That slab of concrete will then be used somehow in the new development of The Trails. Now onto some pictures, check out the whole album here.

Demolition Coming Along

The destruction of Bannister Mall is continuing to move forward, as the walls continue to come down. This week, a lot of work was done on the shell of the store that used to be JC Penny's. 2 of the 3 outside walls are now down, and it's connection with the rest of the mall is now gone. I'd be optimistic, but it's possible that next week most, if not all, of JC Penny's could be down, especially with the weather forecast. So check out some of this week's pictures and the full album here.

Demolition Continues

On my way to open tryouts today, I stopped by Bannister Mall to get my weekly update on how the demolition is going. While looking at it from the normal angle I get pictures, it looks like not a lot of work has been done, there has certainly been plenty of work going on this week. The top floor of the old JC Penny's now has no roof on it, and the inside appears to be entirely cleared out on both levels. While I was hoping for more work to be done, especially with the nice weather we'd had the past few days, the snow on the ground early in the week probably stopped the demolition process a little bit. Check out the full gallery to see more pictures.