McCarthy Begins Demolishing Former March Air Force Base Hospital
McCarthy Building Cos., Inc. reports that it has begun demolishing the former March Air Force Base Hospital in Riverside’s Moreno Valley to make way for construction of a $3.3-billion, 200-acre medical, “health and wellness city” known as March LifeCare.
Since July 2010, McCarthy Building Companies, the March LifeCare program master construction manager, has been working with U.S. Demolition Co. to raze a total of 22 buildings on the base before construction of the new facilities can begin. Bragg Crane Co. brought in an American 125-ton crane with a 145-ft boom and jib, lifting an 8,000 lb wrecking ball for the initial work. The hospital demolition is expected to be completed in three months.