Empire in the News
Empire Services, and the entire Empire Group,
have been in the news several times.
Check out
the stories below!
Empire Services Recieves Award from Alvin H. Butz, Inc.
April 2023
Congratulations Empire Services project team on winning the Alvin H. Butz, Inc. Outstanding Feat award for 2022! The team’s sequenced approach on the Allentown Metal Works project maximized their productivity allowing the building renovations to begin earlier than expected.
Demolition begins on fire-damaged condemned
rowhomes in Lancaster
WGAL.com | March 22, 2023 | Barbara Barr
LANCASTER, Pa. — Eight condemned rowhomes in Lancaster that were damaged by fire last week are being demolished.
The cause of the March 13 fire in the 500 block of Plum Street is still under investigation, according to a news release from the mayor's office.
Demolition begins on condemned fire-damaged
North Plum Street homes
LancasteOnline | March 22, 2023 | Jack Panyard
Demolition began Tuesday morning on a series of homes on North Plum Street that were damaged by a March 13 fire.
The teardown is being handled by Empire Services, a Reading-based demolition company, which has taken down backyard sheds, trees and fences ahead of demolishing the homes. Empire Foreman Konor Yurkons said the project is expected to last three weeks, with most of the work happening this week.
Snowed Down
Demolition Magazine | Q1 | 2022
At 3 p.m. on a Friday in February 2021, NDA Member Empire Services received a call from the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, to perform an emergency demolition after a snowstorm caused the roof and upper floor of a three-story structure to collapse a mere 4 feet from power lines on the 200 block of Maple Street.
Demolition crews work on collapsed buildings in Reading
WFMZ.com | March 2021
READING, Pa. – A pile of bricks is all that remains of a century-old industrial building in the 200 block of Maple Street. Snowstorms last month caused part of the roof to collapse, sending bricks into the street.
Fears of a possible collapse triggered an evacuation of nine homes in the area.
Empire Group donates 15,000 face masks to
Reading Hospital and Penn State Health St. Joseph
readingeagle.com | March 2020 | Dan Kelly
The Empire Group has donated 15,000 N95 face masks to two local hospitals in response to reports of a shortage of the devices amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mask Donation to Area Hospitals
WFMZ.com | March 2020
WEST READING, Pa. - A Berks County business is stepping up to help local healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronvirus pandemic. Reading-based Empire Group has donated 10,000 N95 respirators to Reading Hospital and 5,000 to Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center.
Empire is on Fire
Demolition Magazine | MAR/APR | 2019
"The Reading-based demolition company Empire Services examined the structural integrity of the smokestack, which is part of the factory compley originally built in 1926 and served as a finishing plant for Blair County-based Double H Boots."
Crumbling smokestack in Womelsdorf set for demolition
THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 2019
"The Reading-based demolition company Empire Services examined the structural integrity of the smokestack, which is part of the factory compley originally built in 1926 and served as a finishing plant for Blair County-based Double H Boots."
Clearing Out
Demolition Magazine | Nov/Dec 2018
In almost all ways, the demolition of a two-story office building in Horsham, Pennsylvania, was completely standard.
Demolition Contractor Finds Business
in Helping Local Fire Department
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Empire Group assists the city of Reading, PA, in extinguishing a blaze and removing an eyesore in a densely populated neighborhood.
Former warehouse in Reading gutted
by three-alarm fire will be razed
TUESDAY APRIL 4, 2017
The four-story, vacant brick building at 11th and Chestnut streets that lies in ruins after a three-alarm blaze on Sunday is now officially a demolition site.
Reading building site of rappelling fundraiser
for Bethany Children's Home
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12, 2016
"We were pretty much tied (for fundraising)," Gruber said, "until one of our board members, Harry O'Neill of Empire Services (in Reading), topped us."
Lehigh Valley Business
June 15, 2015
BUILDING AN EMPIRE At 60, Reading company has grown to 200 employees, six divisions
Crews demolish Reading row homes damaged in fire
THURSDAY MAY 7, 2015
City building and trades officials deemed four of the buildings structurally unstable and ordered them razed. The city awarded an emergency demolition contract to Empire Services, Reading.
