Where We Do Demolition in and Around Salinas

Demolition Inside Salinas City Limits

Within the city, five areas account for most of our work. Oldtown has the brick commercial buildings on Main Street and the older houses around them. The Alisal, on the east side, is dense with small homes, detached garages and the storefronts of East Alisal Street. North Salinas has tract homes from the 1960s to the 1980s. Creekbridge and Harden Ranch are newer planned neighborhoods with HOA rules and plenty of remodel work.

All of them share one permit office, the City of Salinas Permit Center, and the same utility providers for gas and electric. Water varies by neighborhood between Cal Water and Alco Water Service.

Unincorporated Areas Permitted by Monterey County

Prunedale, Castroville and Spreckels are not part of any city. Demolition permits for those areas come from Monterey County Housing and Community Development, and the process differs from the city's. Rural parcels may need septic and well work through county environmental health, coastal parcels near Castroville may need coastal review, and Spreckels may involve historic or design review.

These areas also have different buildings: barns and mobile homes in Prunedale, farm sheds and old town homes in Castroville, century-old company houses in Spreckels.

• Prunedale: rural acreage, wells and septic
• Castroville: farm buildings and coastal zone parcels
• Spreckels: historic company houses

Demolition South Down the Salinas Valley

Following Highway 101 south, Gonzales and Soledad are incorporated cities with their own building departments. Both have strong ag economies, with processing, cooling and storage buildings alongside older homes and newer ranch neighborhoods. Soledad is noticeably hotter and drier than Salinas, which affects dust control and crew scheduling.

We bring the same approach to these towns as to Salinas itself: survey first, permit filed with the right city, utilities disconnected, and debris sorted for recycling.

One Air District for Every Demolition Area

Every area on this page is in the Monterey Bay Air Resources District. That means the same asbestos survey and demolition notification rules apply whether the job is on Main Street or a ranch near Soledad. A certified abatement contractor removes any asbestos the survey finds before demolition, and we schedule that work.

If your property is not listed here, ask anyway. We also work in other parts of Monterey County and north into San Benito and Santa Clara Counties.