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Searching for commercial demolition in Illinois, or a commercial demolition contractor near me? Storefronts, old gas stations, garages, small offices, and ag-commercial buildings — taken down clean, hauled off, and graded smooth. Right-sized for the buildings around here, not downtown high-rises. Mattoon, IL — serving a 60-mile radius through Champaign, Decatur, Shelbyville and Effingham.
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Commercial demolition contractor in Mattoon, IL — serving Charleston, Effingham, Shelbyville, Decatur, Champaign, and Urbana. Brohez Trucking LLC handles commercial and light-industrial teardowns — vacant storefronts and offices, shops and warehouses, restaurant and retail buildings, slabs and foundations — brought down in a controlled sequence, debris processed and hauled, the lot graded for whatever goes back on it. Asbestos inspection coordinated where the building requires one. Insured, owner-operated, 60-mile radius. Free on-site estimate: (217) 809-0779.
An empty commercial building downtown or out on the highway doesn't just sit there — it's a tax line, an insurance headache, and a target for break-ins and code letters. When a small storefront, shop, or office has done its time, you want it down, hauled, and the lot left clean and ready for whatever's next.
Right here — call (217) 809-0779. Levi walks the building with you and hands you one itemized number. Free, no obligation, anywhere inside 60 miles of Mattoon, IL.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles light commercial demolition across central Illinois — small-town Main Street storefronts, old gas stations and repair garages, small offices, restaurant and shop interior tear-outs, and ag-commercial buildings, including the country grain elevators and co-op sheds standing along the rail line in half the towns around here. I'll be straight with you: this is owner-operator work right-sized for the kind of buildings around here, not downtown high-rises or implosion jobs. If it's a one- or two-story commercial building, that's our lane.
The Komatsu PC150LC handles the heavy work. The JCB mini and Takeuchi skid steer get into tight lots and alleys and clean up after. Dump trucks haul the block, steel, and concrete straight to a proper disposal site. Building standing to clean lot is one job, one contractor.
We're straight about what's in the structure before we start, including any signs of asbestos in old tile, mastic, insulation, or roofing — common in older commercial buildings and nothing to bulldoze and ignore.
First commercial teardown? It runs differently from a house, and the differences are mostly calendar rather than machine — the asbestos survey and 10-working-day notice a commercial building needs and a house doesn't, the utility disconnect only the account holder can request, and phasing the work around a property that's still open for business. We laid all of it out in commercial demolition in Illinois — what's different from a house, and how many days each phase really takes in how long a demolition job takes.
Commercial buildings put up before about 1980 can carry asbestos in floor tile, mastic, pipe insulation, or roofing. It's common in old storefronts and shops, and it's manageable — it just has to be handled the right way, not torn out and ignored.
The permit side of this is in do you need a permit to demolish a building in Illinois. A commercial building gets no single-family exemption: the pre-demolition asbestos survey and the IEPA 10-working-day notification are required regardless of the building's age, and older buildings are simply where the material usually turns up. We coordinate both and build the 10-day clock into the schedule. If there's asbestos to remove, we bring in an IDPH-licensed asbestos abatement contractor to take it out the right way before we demolish. It's worth confirming the specifics with your local IEPA office, and we'll point you the right direction.
Talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a call center. Call (217) 809-0779.
Running a commercial or storm/fire rebuild and need the teardown taken off your plate? Brohez subs the demolition, slab and foundation removal, and full debris haul-off for general contractors and site primes across central Illinois. You keep your crew on the build — we bring the machines, the dump trucks, and the disposal.
One demolition-and-haul number, insured, with a Certificate of Insurance emailed before we roll in. On storm- and fire-damaged commercial structures we can move quick on the teardown and emergency debris haul-off so the site's clear and ready for your rebuild. Storm & fire-damage demolition →
GCs and site primes: call Levi direct at (217) 809-0779 to get Brohez on your next demolition scope.
Every building is different. The basics don't change.
We come look at the building, talk through what's coming down, check what it's built from and how the lot sits, and give you a straight number. No pressure.
Commercial buildings in town need a permit and utilities pulled on record. We help sort the paperwork, call locates, and arrange to kill power, gas, and water to the building.
If the building's old enough, we coordinate the inspection and IEPA notification first. Take out anything you want to keep before we mobilize.
The Komatsu works the building down in a controlled sequence — no dropping things toward the sidewalk, the neighboring storefront, or the street.
We break out the slab, footings, and basement if it's part of the job, separate steel and rebar for recycling, and load block and debris onto dump trucks for proper disposal.
We backfill, grade the lot flat, and walk you through the finished work. Clean ground — ready to rebuild, pave, or seed down.
Small commercial, right-sized for an owner-operator. If it's a storefront, shop, or small building in the way, we can probably help.
Small-town storefronts and downtown commercial buildings torn down clean, careful around the neighboring walls and the sidewalk.
Old service stations, repair garages, and small auto shops removed and hauled — tanks coordinated on site if there are any underground.
Single-story offices, professional buildings, and small commercial structures demolished and cleared so the lot can be reused.
Interior tear-out of restaurants, shops, and storefronts — fixtures, walls, flooring, and kitchen build-out stripped to a clean shell.
Country grain elevators — headhouse, leg, cribbed or concrete storage, driveway, scale pit, and the boot pit and foundations below grade — plus co-op sheds, farm-supply stores, and elevator outbuildings. Taken down mechanically, hauled off, backfilled, and graded. More on grain elevator demolition →
Selective demolition where part of a commercial building comes out — an addition, a wing, or a section ahead of a remodel.
Commercial slabs, footings, and old basements broken out, hauled, and backfilled so the lot is buildable again.
Block, steel, concrete, and trash all hauled to a proper disposal site. You walk away with a clean lot, not a pile.
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Real demolition jobs from around central Illinois.
Brohez Trucking LLC gives free, on-site, itemized estimates for commercial demolition anywhere within 60 miles of Mattoon, Illinois — call (217) 809-0779. We walk the building with you and give you one number that already covers the teardown, the debris haul-off, the foundation or slab if it is coming out, and the final grade. Storefronts, offices, shops, warehouses and small industrial buildings all count. On a commercial structure the asbestos survey and the 10-working-day IEPA notice come first, and we tell you at the walk which of those apply to your building. We cover Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, Edgar, Clark, Champaign and Macon counties. There is no charge for the visit and no obligation to book the work.
Light commercial — small-town Main Street storefronts, old gas stations and garages, small offices, restaurant and shop interior tear-outs, and ag-commercial buildings. It's right-sized for the kind of buildings around here, not downtown high-rises or implosion work. If it's a one- or two-story commercial building, that's our lane.
It depends on the size of the building, what it's built from, whether the slab and foundation come out, utility disconnects, how far we haul the debris, and access to the site. We give free on-site estimates with a straight number. Call (217) 809-0779.
Yes. Selective interior tear-out is common commercial work — stripping a storefront, shop, or restaurant down to the shell so it can be rebuilt or re-leased. We pull fixtures, walls, flooring, and the kitchen build-out, haul it off, and leave a clean shell.
Yes — a country elevator is ag-commercial demolition, and it's work we take on. The whole plant comes into it: headhouse, leg, cribbed timber or concrete storage, the truck driveway and scale pit, and the boot pit, tunnel, and heavy footings below grade that usually have to come out to a set depth and get backfilled. It all comes down mechanically with the excavator, breaker, dozer, and dump trucks — no explosives, no implosion, no crane. Elevators vary a lot in height and construction, so we look first and tell you straight whether it's in our lane. There's more detail on our grain elevator, bin and silo removal page.
Commercial buildings inside city limits almost always need a demolition permit and utility disconnects on record. We'll tell you what's required, help you sort the paperwork, and call in the locates before anything moves.
Older commercial buildings — anything before about 1980 — can carry asbestos in tile, mastic, insulation, or roofing. A commercial building gets no single-family exemption, so the pre-demolition survey and the IEPA 10-working-day notification are required regardless of age. We coordinate both, and we bring in an IDPH-licensed asbestos abatement contractor to remove anything found before demolition. It's worth confirming the specifics with your local IEPA office, and we'll point you the right direction.
Yes. If the job includes the slab, footings, or basement, we break it out, haul it off, and backfill or grade the lot so it's ready to rebuild, pave, or seed down.
Yes — old service stations, repair garages, and small auto shops are common around here. If there are underground tanks on the site, we handle the tank pull and coordinate the right steps; ask about our tank removal work too.
60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — including Decatur, Champaign, Effingham, Charleston, Urbana, Sullivan, Tuscola, Shelbyville, Pana, and Terre Haute.
If you are inside a 60-mile radius of Mattoon, Illinois, yes. Brohez Trucking LLC takes down storefronts, old service stations, shops, small offices, and ag-commercial buildings anywhere in that radius — Champaign, Urbana, Decatur, Effingham, Shelbyville, Charleston, Sullivan, Tuscola, Pana and Terre Haute included. You deal with Levi, the owner running the machine, and travel is built into the estimate instead of added afterward. Free on-site estimate: (217) 809-0779.
Yes — Champaign and Urbana are a regular run for us. Most of it is a rental property, an old shop building, or a tenant space getting gutted before a rebuild. If you are looking for a Champaign, IL demolition contractor for small commercial or light industrial work, that is our lane. We are not chasing high-rise or multi-story work, and we will tell you straight if a building is bigger than we should take on. Call (217) 809-0779.
An old concrete structure that had been sitting overgrown for years — the Komatsu broke it apart, our trucks hauled it off, and the lot came back clean and graded.
The scale moves with the building, but the shape of the job doesn't: break it apart with the excavator, separate the concrete and steel, haul it to the right place, and hand back a clean graded lot.
See how that job went →Brohez Trucking LLC delivers demolition across a 60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — into Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, Edgar, Clark, Champaign, and Macon counties, plus over the line into Vigo County, Indiana. Pick your town below for local details, or call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in the radius.
Most of our commercial work lands in the same handful of towns. In Champaign and Urbana it's usually a rental property, an old shop building, or a tenant space getting gutted before a rebuild — if you're looking for a Champaign, IL demolition contractor for something that size, that's us. Commercial demolition in Shelbyville, Sullivan, Tuscola and Arcola runs more toward main-street storefronts, old service stations, and ag-commercial buildings on the edge of town. Decatur and Effingham tend to be light industrial and warehouse tear-outs. Mattoon and Charleston are home turf — we're there the same day if you want us to look at it.
The scope is the same wherever it sits: bring the building down, separate the steel for scrap, haul the debris off in roll-offs, take the slab and footings out if that's what you want, and grade the lot so it drains and you can use it. Small commercial and light industrial is our lane — we're not chasing high-rise work, and we'll tell you straight if a building is bigger than we should be taking on.
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"We hired Levy for a large demo job and dirt removal. They showed up on time, worked hard, and completed the job faster than I expected. What impressed me most was how clean they left the site afterwards — no mess left behind."
"Great Service and Great Price! They continued working for 3 days to demolish three buildings and removed all the debris to dumpsters that I ordered. Then, they also came in with dirt to fill the whole backyard. Strongly recommended!"
"Very responsive, fair pricing, and easy to work with. Did a great job for our project."
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