Commercial Demolition
Commercial teardowns + structural demolition + abatement.
100K permits classified across 22 metros
Browse commercial demolition permits in New York City →What it covers
Commercial demolition permits cover full and partial teardowns of commercial structures — building removal, structural demolition for redevelopment, and asbestos abatement preceding demolition. Frequently a leading indicator of upcoming commercial new construction at the same parcel.
How a permit lands in Commercial Demolition.
Every silver permit flows through a two-stage classifier. The deterministic stage maps the structured signals — work_class, the normalized permit type, and the building sub-type — into the segment vocabulary where the mapping is unambiguous. The machine-learning stage handles the cases that aren't direct lookups: multi-vocab permit-type strings, ambiguous occupancy spans, and jurisdictions that bundle categories. The segment is the classifier's output, the same axis across every metro — so commercial_demolition means the same thing in NYC as in LA even though the upstream jurisdictions emit completely different raw permit-type strings.
When the signal genuinely isn't there, we say so. A row with no assignable segment degrades honestly — to its work-nature, then to its raw source type, and only to “Unclassified” when truly nothing is known. We never guess a segment to fill a gap; an honest Unclassified is the floor, and field-level data-quality flags surface when the classifier had low confidence. That restraint is the point — the classification is only worth selling on if the “don't know” is honest.
Commercial Demolition by metro
Where commercial demolition permits are classified today, ranked by volume. Metros with recent activity link straight into the live browse; the rest show their all-time classified count.
- New York City →56K
- Austin →9,078
- Los Angeles →8,718
- Boston →4,777
- Phoenix →4,082
- San Francisco3,227
- Seattle →2,589
- Philadelphia →2,283
- Baltimore →1,859
- Washington, DC →1,272
- Cleveland1,179
- Columbus1,054
- Miami →913
- Raleigh860
- Cincinnati →832
- Norfolk495
- Memphis284
- Pittsburgh →275
- Atlanta →266
- Hartford →114
- Louisville →60
- Sacramento →20
Recent commercial demolition permits
Real permits classified into Commercial Demolition in the last 30 days.
- 5709 COTTAGE STDemolition—2026-07-02Philadelphia
- 710 N 43RD STDemolition—2026-07-02Philadelphia
- 416 Pond STDemolition$15K2026-07-01Boston
- 162-05 HORACE HARDING EXPRESSWAYDemolition$12026-06-30New York City
- 28 WEST 37 STREETDemolition$300K2026-06-30New York City
- 5409 PONCIANA DRDemolition$12026-06-30Austin
Who tracks Commercial Demolition.
Commercial Demolition is a sales-intelligence segment for building-products manufacturers and their sales teams selling into commercial construction — roofing, HVAC, signage, MEP, and envelope. Filter it by metro, rank the contractors pulling these permits, and see the projects worth selling into — the same way across every covered market.