Service area
Independence Demolition Pros: Towns Served Within 20 Miles of Independence, Missouri
Independence plus the ten largest towns inside a 20-mile circle, in Jackson and Clay counties, each with its own permit office and its own page.
- Independence and 10 towns within 20 miles
- Written price before any work starts
- City permit, utility and asbestos steps explained
- Local, licensed, insured contractors
Independence Demolition Pros covers Independence and the towns within 20 miles of it: Blue Springs, Raytown, Grain Valley, the east side and Northland of Kansas City, Liberty, Lee's Summit, Oak Grove, Gladstone, Grandview and Excelsior Springs. The circle is the service area; a property outside it is not one the crews we work with claim to cover.
The same job, a different form in every town
The excavator work is the same from Grandview to Excelsior Springs. What changes is who issues the permit, who inspects the sewer kill and how deep the foundation has to go. Independence pulls its own meters because it owns the electric and water utilities; Lee's Summit wants a right-of-way permit closed before the demolition permit issues; Liberty wants foundations 18 inches below grade and basement rubble broken to eight-inch pieces; Kansas City wants a licensed Class I or Class II demolition contractor and an asbestos notice filed with its own Air Quality Program. Each town page below says who to call and what the house demolition, pool removal and concrete removal pages mean on that side of the line.
Ten towns inside 20 miles
Blue Springs
Jackson County, 6.8 miles from Independence. The 1970s and 1980s bedroom-community stock, with pools and garages reaching the end of their lives.
Raytown
Jackson County, 8.6 miles from Independence. A postwar suburb of 1950s ranches on basements, now sixty to seventy years old.
Grain Valley
Jackson County, 8.8 miles from Independence. A farm town that grew from 1,900 people to nearly 17,000 since 1990, farmsteads inside subdivisions.
Kansas City
Jackson County, 11 miles from Independence. The metro core's east side and Northland, with the City's licensed-contractor and Air Quality Program rules.
Liberty
Clay County, 11.4 miles from Independence. The Clay County seat, with the most detailed demolition bulletin in the service area.
Lee's Summit
Jackson County, 11.5 miles from Independence. A city of 106,000 that grew from 2,754 people in 1950, with detailed permit rules of its own.
Oak Grove
Jackson County, 13.2 miles from Independence. The I-70 exit town growing fastest in the county, farmsteads inside new plats.
Gladstone
Clay County, 14.2 miles from Independence. Linden became Gladstone in 1952; Hamilton Heights and Bolling Heights filled it with 1950s ranches.
Grandview
Jackson County, 16.8 miles from Independence. A postwar city beside the old Richards-Gebaur air base, with commercial corridors in redevelopment.
Excelsior Springs
Clay County, 18.6 miles from Independence. A resort town from 1880 on limestone and shale, where footings sit on rock and the river floods.
Calls answered Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Get a demolition price in writing
Say what is coming down, where it is, and what should be left behind: bare dirt, a slab, or a seeded lot. A local contractor confirms the number after a walk-through.
Call (816) 846-2347