Nine vacant buildings on the former IU Health Bloomington Hospital site will be demolished starting Friday.
The work is to prepare for the creation of Hopewell, a planned mixed-income Bloomington neighborhood.
Each structure will be manually demolished one at a time starting from east to west by a crew of about two to four people, according to the city. The crew will not use explosives.
The city also wants to demolish a historic building at 615 West First St., but to do so it needs approval from the Bloomington Historic Preservation Commission.
If the commission agrees, the building will be demolished and used as a field office for the demolition team.
The work is being done by Renascent, a demolition contractor based in Indianapolis.
Demolition will occur between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and will last about 16 to 20 weeks.
Construction traffic will come and go from West First Street. No lane closures are planned.
