The former Hansen-Muller grain elevator in Lincoln was once the largest grain elevator in Nebraska. Built in 1953, the building was recently bought by CL Construction at an auction and over the course of the next few years will be demolished and its concrete sold.
The towering gray structure has seemingly always been there. It's part of the landscape, a familiar mainstay to north Lincoln's skyline.
For a while longer, at least.
Nothing lasts forever.
And 71 years is a good run.
Gary Ostwald has never known a day when what was once known as the Hansen-Mueller grain elevator wasn't there.
But in January, Ostwald will begin the task of demolishing the grain elevator that has become a landmark at 3001 Cornhusker Highway.
"Anytime the landscape changes, it causes people to reflect," said Ostwald, a special projects manager with CL Construction.
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The Lincoln-based firm bought the grain elevator and its 18 acres of industrial land at auction in late May.
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The high bid was $550,000.
On paper, it looks like CL Construction got a bargain. The property has an assessed value of $2.89 million, according to the Lancaster County Assessor's Office.
It's the fourth time the grain elevator has sold since 1999. C-G Grains Co. sold it to Cargill for $4.9 million. In 2013, Cargill sold it for nearly $2.9 million to 3001 Cornhusker Highway LLC.
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The former Hansen-Mueller grain elevator, near 30th Street and Cornhusker Highway, was built in 1953. It was recently bought by CL Construction at an auction and over the course of the next few years will be demolished.
Three years later, 30th & Cornhusker Lincoln LLC bought it for $3.56 million.
CL Construction plans to spend the next five months breaking down the usable parts. There are several conveyor belts and rollers that can be sold to some of the firm's other agricultural clients.
In January, a team of about nine workers will begin taking down a structure that measures about a quarter-mile long and 20 stories high and consists of more than a billion pounds of concrete and rebar.
The plan for demolition 鈥 much like the old joke about how you eat an elephant 鈥 is simple. Large excavators will take down the massive grain elevator one bite at a time.
"A claw is probably the way we'll do it," said Matt McCloskey, CL Construction's director of millwrights.
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The former Hansen-Mueller grain elevator, near 30th Street and Cornhusker Highway, was built in 1953. It was recently bought by CL Construction at an auction and over the course of the next few years will be demolished.
From there, CL Construction will refine the concrete by separating it from several tons of rebar and breaking it down for sale as well as usage in the company's paving business.
And about two years later, when the grain elevator is down and the concrete is gone, it hopes to sell the land 鈥 which is located on a rail spur 鈥 to a manufacturing company.
Buying a grain elevator for demolition is a gamble Chris Lautenschlager was willing to take. And it's something he might just do again.
"We saw this as an opportunity to continue to expand our capabilities,"聽Lautenschlager said. "There are many of these structures in the Midwest where people are unable to keep up with the maintenance but don't have the resources to demo them."
Bringing down the grain elevator 鈥 Ostwald's first demolition, by the way 鈥 is part of the job, but he admitted there are some nostalgic pangs that come with demolishing something with which he is so familiar.
"I've seen this elevator almost every day for 59 years," he said. "... I remember when there was nothing out here. Nothing but this thing. It's been a permanent (fixture)."
The grain elevator now casts a shadow over a nearby Home Depot, Super Saver and various fast-food restaurants 鈥 telltale indicators of progress 鈥 that have grown up around it in all directions.
Meanwhile, Cornhusker Highway, the main thoroughfare, is alive with east-west traffic and Havelock Yard 鈥 a couple of miles to the east 鈥 is still a hive of railroad activity and a vital cog in the supply chain.
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A Western Kingbird perches on a pipe with its nest at the former Hansen-Mueller grain elevator near 30th Street and Cornhusker Highway on Wednesday.
Lincoln's industrial sector is alive and well, but the clock is ticking on one of its most iconic structures.
"It's going to come down to the ground," Ostwald said.
In 1953 鈥 nearly a decade before the Huskers' longstanding football sellout streak began 鈥 the C-G Grain Co. built the grain elevator as a way for Lincoln to compete with Omaha in the commodities market.
It was expanded three times before 1957, doubling its capacity to 12 million bushels and making it the largest operating grain elevator in Nebraska at the time.
The Lincoln Star's B.R. Rothenberger wrote in June 1955 about how Lincoln was challenging Omaha to be Nebraska's grain center.
"From a minor figure just five years ago in Nebraska's grain storage picture, Lincoln will emerge this year from an intensive commercial elevator building program to formidable rivalry with the Omaha-Council Bluffs area for the title of the state's leading grain center," the story stated.
In 1950, Omaha stored 28.7 million bushels to Lincoln's 3.8 million bushels. By 1956, that gap had narrowed exponentially after Omaha posted 27.2 million bushels to more than 22 million bushels in Lincoln, according to the story.
Lincoln's push to build grain elevators helped it become a bigger player in the grain storage business, and the Capital City was projected to have more than 25% of the state's warehousing capacity by the end of 1955, the report said.
The C-G Grain Co. elevator played a large role in bolstering that number.
And the grain elevator, which has changed hands a few times in 71 years, has always been an active storage place for the grains 鈥 from corn to beans to oats 鈥 that come from all over the state.
After CL Construction purchased the elevator on May 30, there were more than 5.5 million bushels in storage that had to be removed.
"The trucks just kept coming, taking away the grain," McCloskey said. "It was amazing to watch. We gave them whatever time they needed to get them out."
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Tennessee's Aaron Combs (front right) celebrates with his teammates after the last out to win Game 3 of the College World Series championship series against Texas A&M on Monday, June 24, 2024, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. Tennessee won 6-5.
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Texas A&M's Jace LaViolette (left) and Hayden Schott (right) embrace after losing to Tennessee in the College World Series championship game Monday at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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A young bald eagle eats a fish near hole 13 Friday at Holmes Lake Golf Course. Bald eagles don't grow their distinctive white head feathers until they are about 4 years old.
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Parker Crane works on landing a trick on the table portion of a ledge feature at the Tierra Briarhurst Skatepark on Wednesday.
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India Ingram (center from left) dances with Jada and Tonisha Williams during a Juneteenth celebration put on by the Malone Center in Woods Park on Saturday.
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Lori Thomas, chief operating officer of the聽Nebraska Horsemen鈥檚 Benevolent and Protective Association, poses for a portrait with her art, which will be exhibited at the Miller Grell Law Group.
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From the bullpen, Kentucky's Jackson Nove (left), Eli Small (center) and Cameron O'Brien (right) celebrate a two-RBI homer hit by Nolan McCarthy (19) during the fourth inning of Game 3 of the College World Series against NC State on Saturday, June 15, 2024, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
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Artist Angela Two Stars sketches on a printmaking block as part of her artist residency at Great Plains Art Museum on Friday. A multidisciplinary artist and a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Two Stars has worked on art pieces that focus on healing intergenerational trauma. She has created various pieces to be part of the museum's permanent collection during her stay in Lincoln. The last day of her residency at the museum is Saturday.
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Lincoln local Dave Dier (right) speaks with artist Chris Abigt of Ottumwa, Iowa, at her tent during the Lincoln Arts Festival on Canopy Street in downtown Lincoln on Saturday.
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Nebraska hurdler and Lincoln native Darius Luff poses with a聽proclamation signed by Mayor聽Leirion Gaylor Baird, who announced June 7 as "Darius Luff Day" on Monday at the Devaney Sports Center.
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Florida State's James Tibbs III (22) throws a beach ball back into the crowd during game two of the College World Series against Florida State on Friday, June 14, 2024, at Charles Schwab Field, in Omaha.
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Angela Reynoso, 2, of Grand Island, drives her toy car along the koi pond retaining wall Monday at the Sunken Gardens in Lincoln. Temperatures on Monday reached the 90s. Tuesday's forecast calls for a high of 91 with a chance for storms in the evening, according to the National Weather Service.
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Director of the Raptor Conservation Alliance Betsy Finch and President of the Raptor Conservation Alliance Doug Finch use a flashlight to check a peregrine falcon chick's mouth for parasites after it was banded on Wednesday at the Capitol.
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North Carolina's Vance Honeycutt (7) bows his head as his teammates spray water on him after his winning hit during the first game of the College World Series against Virginia on Friday, June 14, 2024, at Charles Schwab Field, in Omaha. North Carolina won 3-2.
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Tommy Arsiaga huddles with young boxers at The Complex on Tuesday. Arsiaga and his wife Tina bought the six-acre Champions Fun Center two years ago and turned into a training center for at-risk youths in Lincoln.
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Connor McFayden of Lincoln cleans up broken tents on Saturday morning at the Star City Pride Fesitval space near Pinnacle Bank Arena. Heavy rain and wind damaged vendor booths and the stage.
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Swimmers cool off in the pool at Star City Shores on Tuesday in Lincoln, which was only the third day so far this summer to top 90 degrees. However, the 90s are on tap for the foreseeable future as the city will see its first heat wave of the year.
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Julie York, a foster parent with Brave Animal Rescue, holds eight week old kittens (from left) Piglet, Pooh Bear and Roo on Friday, May 31, 2024. York has a dedicated "kitten room" built in her basement to house foster kittens for up to four to six weeks at a time. As a foster parent, York has taken care of 96 animals that have since been adopted.
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Daylilies are seen in bloom in front of the state Capitol on Monday in Lincoln. Temperature in Lincoln reached a high of 87 degrees on Monday according to the National Weather Service. Tuesday is expected to reach 84 degrees with storms possible.
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Elijah Harris (from left) breaks a water balloon over the head of Joshua Williams, 12, as Alicio Brown, 9, throws a water balloon, while Amarien Bonebright, 8 escapes carrying ammunition during a Community Day event put on by Black African Family at Woods Park on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Lincoln.
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Minnie Anderson, 92, (left) embraces 104-year-old WWII veteran Andy Meyerle as he is welcomed back home from a D-Day honor flight on Thursday at the Savannah Pines Retirement Community. Anderson and Meyerle sit together and play card games during happy hour every day.
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Lincoln's Drew Devine (3) makes a diving catch in the second inning against Lake Country on Thursday at Haymarket Park.
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Piano keys are reflected in the sunglasses of Lewade 鈥淏ig Wade鈥 Milliner, an Omaha native who is the lead singer/pianist of the band Big Wade & Black Swan Theory, as he performs with his band-mates at the Rococo Theatre during the first Jazz in June show of the year Tuesday. The show, scheduled for the Sheldon Sculpture Garden, moved inside because of the forecast.
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Jaz Shelley (center) smiles during her youth basketball skills camp Thursday at Speedway Sports Complex.
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Lincoln Indian Center board member John Yoakum (left) and executive director Steve Laravie Jr. load bottled water onto a truck to be delivered to the Santee Sioux Reservation on Wednesday in Lincoln.
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Cedars employees Nate Wright (from left), Jay Voigt and Nicole Woebbecke share information about their organization during the Give to Lincoln Day nonprofit festival on Thursday at Tower Square.
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Joseph Kruger (from left) wipes his eyes next to Deputy Lancaster County Public Defenders Sarah Safarik and Shawn Elliott as the state gives the opening statement during his trial Tuesday at Lancaster County District Court.
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The South team celebrates their win after the 66th annual Shrine Bowl of Nebraska game on Saturday, June 1, 2024, at Cope Stadium. South won 17-10.
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Ginnie Lewis of Lincoln (left) points to Lincoln musician Bill Chrastil (right) as he sings "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" during the Veterans Freedom Music Festival Saturday at Antelope Park.
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Lincoln Saltdogs' Drew Devine (3) takes a moment to ready himself in the dugout before taking on the Kane County Cougars at Haymarket Park on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Lincoln.
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Enyssa Arps (left) and Cole Kampschneider shop for herbs from the Green School Farms booth during the Hub Farmers Market on Wednesday at Union Plaza. The farmers market, which features live music, food and a number of vendors, is every Wednesday from 5-7 p.m. through Sept. 25.
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Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn (right) answers questions from audience members during a townhall at the Lincoln Labor Temple on Tuesday.