Although the tunnel would be hidden below a landscaped park along the Penrose Canal, the excavation would require demolishing as many as a dozen houses.

Building a castle within a pre-existing settlement could require demolishing properties on the site, and in the case of Warwick four houses were pulled down.

In the late 2000s, the MTA began construction on a planned extension of the IRT Flushing Line to 34th Street, which would require demolishing the IND Eighth Avenue lower level platform.

In addition, I-70/I-65's construction required demolishing homes on the west side of the neighborhood, leaving it bordered with a high-traffic roadway.

Building new rooms may also require demolishing elevators.

Building a castle in a pre-existing settlement could require demolishing properties on the site.

This would require demolishing part of the Truro Centre, including the present post-1972 station, in order to create a railway crossing.

But an anonymous flier distributed to residents immediately surrounding the school earlier this summer has galvanized many in the neighborhood to oppose that plan, which, if it were to be executed, would require demolishing as many as seven houses that are as old as the school.

Installing a pocket door usually requires demolishing part of the front wall to alter the framing and install the track and pocket hardware.