37 demolition contractors filed 744 demolition permits on homes in the City of St. Louis from October 2023 to September 2026; 33 filed one in the last 12 months. The most active in the last 12 months were Bellon Wrecking LLC (79 permits), Premier Demolition, Inc. (75) and Hillsdale Demolition Contracting LLC (70); busy is not the same as careful. St. Louis demolition permits carry no filed job value, so this list compares firms on permits filed, finishing and recent activity only. Side by side: permits filed, share finished and permits in the last 12 months for each firm. Pick what you value and the list re-orders.
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Top 5 by demolition permits filed in the last 12 months. This is volume, not quality: a busy firm is not necessarily a careful one.
The 8 ZIP codes with the most demolition permits on homes from October 2023 to September 2026. Each opens permits by trade and the most active firms there.
63115 (282) 63113 (209) 63107 (80) 63108 (45) 63112 (28) 63147 (18) 63110 (14) 63111 (11)
Before you move a slider, the list is in a default order built only from the permit record: how much of each firm’s record is this kind of job (weight 30), how often its permits reached completion (25), how many permits it filed in the last 12 months (15) and how quickly its permits closed (10). Each measure is ranked against the other 37 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short.
The order comes from the St. Louis permit file, not from reviews: 33 of 37 demolition contractors filed a permit in the last 12 months and 95% of their permits a year or more old were finished. Nobody pays to be listed or to move up, and there are no star ratings or reviews. The sliders and presets change the weights, and the order changes with them. How the records work in St. Louis.
We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Sep 2026, the top 3 are Premier Demolition, Inc. (75 permits), Eis – Environmental Infrastructure Solutions (48 permits) and Sultan General Construction Co LLC (53 permits). By permits filed alone, the most active is Bellon Wrecking LLC with 85.
37 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 79 demolition permits in the last 12 months and the middle firm filed 9 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed and share of permits finished. Pick what matters to you and the list re-orders, for example recent activity if you need someone soon. The order comes from the permit record only, and nobody pays to be listed or to move up.
37 firms filed at least one demolition permit on homes in the City of St. Louis from October 2023 to September 2026; 33 of them filed one in the last 12 months.
We have not matched license records to St. Louis firms, so ask for the license number and check it yourself with City of St. Louis contractor business licenses. How to check a contractor's license in Missouri →
Three you can check against this page: “How many demolition permits have you filed in St. Louis?” (the middle firm here filed 9; 33 of 37 filed one in the last 12 months); “What does your quote include: the permit fee and the city inspection?”; “Will you pull the permit in your company’s name, and when is the final inspection?” (95% of older demolition permits here were finished). All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 37 firms filed 744 demolition permits from October 2023 to September 2026, and each firm’s name opens its own permit record. Every number comes from City of St. Louis building permits. To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the St. Louis permit office. How the records work in St. Louis →
St. Louis demolition permits carry no filed job value, so we can’t rank demolition contractors by price. Get two or three written quotes; ask whether the permit fee and the city inspection are included; shortlist from the 33 firms that filed in the last 12 months.
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 37 demolition contractors here is shown with its permit record: 744 permits and the share finished. Read reviews on other sites and use this page to check them against the record. Reviews vs permit records →
Every number on this page comes from City of St. Louis building permits: 37 firms filed 744 demolition permits on homes in the City of St. Louis from October 2023 to September 2026, and 33 of them filed one in the last 12 months. The middle firm has 9 permits in the whole file. A short record leaves more uncertainty, and some jobs never require a permit.
No usable job value is recorded for this permit type, so no typical cost is shown. See how we compare records.
Most St. Louis demolition permits are filed in June (227 against an average month of 100); October is the quietest (16). When each trade is busiest in St. Louis →