Service areas
Where Demolition Work Is Covered in the West Metro
Edina Demolition covers Edina and the communities that ring it on the west and south side of the Twin Cities. Four of them have their own pages below, and the rest of the nearby suburbs are covered too.
Why each community gets its own page
Demolition in Minneapolis and demolition in Eden Prairie are the same trade under different conditions. City lots are narrower and often reached by alley, houses tend to be older and garages sit at the back of the lot. Lake-country suburbs bring slopes, woods and shoreland. Newer subdivisions have walkout basements, decks and pools that went in a generation ago and are now due to come out. Bloomington holds a large stock of postwar ramblers and split-levels, with some lots near the Minnesota River bluffs.
Each city also runs its own permit desk, with its own expectations about neighbor notice, tree protection and erosion control. The community pages describe those differences in general terms, so you know what to ask your building department before a project gets underway.
Edina and the suburbs next door
Edina is the hub of this site, and its teardown-and-rebuild activity is covered across the homepage and the service pages, starting with house demolition. Richfield, St. Louis Park and Hopkins share much of the same postwar housing and clay soil, and requests from those cities are handled the same way. If your property sits just outside the communities listed here, send the address anyway.
For the trade itself, such as how a basement is filled or how a pool shell is broken up, the services page is the place to start. To describe a project, head to the contact page.
Demolition Minneapolis: old houses, alleys and tight city lots
Tearing something down in Minneapolis is rarely a wide-open job. Houses built a century ago stand a few steps from the neighbors, garages open onto alleys, mature boulevard trees shade the street, and the basement under almost every home sits in ground shaped by glaciers and the Mississippi River. Those details decide which machine fits, where the debris container goes, and how long the city review takes. This page covers what makes demolition inside the city different from the suburbs to the west. For how each kind of work is done step by step, follow the links to the service pages, or send the address through the contact page and we'll take a look at what you have.
Demolition in Minnetonka, where the lots are big and the ground is rarely flat
Minnetonka is not a grid of city lots. It is lake country: curving roads, wooded hills, wetlands in every low spot, and houses set far back on big parcels. That layout changes almost every demolition job here. Machines travel farther, big trees stand between the street and the work, slopes decide where a truck can park, and the shore of Lake Minnetonka or Minnehaha Creek can pull a watershed district into the conversation. This page walks through how Minnetonka's ground and rules shape the work. When you are ready, send the address and a contractor who works the west metro can walk it with you.
Eden Prairie demolition for walkout lots, backyard pools and newer houses
Eden Prairie grew up later than the inner suburbs. Most of its neighborhoods were laid out from the seventies onward, on rolling land between lakes, wetlands and the Minnesota River bluffs. That history means the demolition work here looks different. Whole-house teardowns happen, but they are outnumbered by backyard jobs: an in-ground pool that has become a chore, a tiered deck that has outlived its fasteners, a basement finished in a style nobody wants anymore, a driveway that frost has lifted out of line. Walkout lots, cul-de-sacs and associations shape nearly every one of those projects. Read on for local conditions, or email the address and what you want removed.
Bloomington demolition for postwar ramblers, split-levels and worn-out slabs
Bloomington filled in fast after the war. Block after block of ramblers, split-levels and story-and-a-halfs went up on modest suburban lots, with concrete driveways, front stoops and patios poured alongside them. Many of those houses and nearly all of that concrete are now old enough to need decisions. Some owners are clearing a rambler to build something larger on the same lot. Many more are gutting a kitchen or lower level, taking out a heaved driveway, or removing a tired detached garage. The city runs from the I-494 corridor south to the Minnesota River bluffs, and the ground changes a lot between those edges. When you know what you want gone, email us the address.