Thousands of bees relocated from Northridge Mall to safe habitats [Video]

The years-long battle to demolish the old Northridge Mall hit yet another challenge.Thousands of bees.After a drawn-out court battle over what to do with the property, the city of Milwaukee finally acquired the mall back in January. During the teardown process, a jobsite supervisor found two hives buzzing with thousands of honeybees in the long abandoned building near 76th and Brown Deer.”Right away, I thought about just to save them,” Nazim Agushi said. Agushi is a jobsite supervisor for Balestrieri Environmental and Development, the company in charge of removing asbestos from the mall during the demolition process. “I did remove the whole plywood from here, and it was located right in this corner,” Agushi said. Agushi found one of the hives in the old JCPenney building and a second where the old Younkers department store was located. “The minute I saw them, there’s no way I’m going to get a …