On top of a $100,000 remediation to remove mold, the building needs a complete overhaul, a new roof, and heating and air-conditioning systems, he explained. "It would cost more to repair the building than to knock it down," township administrator Kevin Heydel said. Township residents cried out on the social media forum for the township to save the building, rehab and repurpose it.īut the $150,000 bill to raze it is far less than the cost to work on it. "I hate to use the term eyesore, but it was an eyesore." "We gotta take it down," Mayor Dan Teefy told the Courier-Post, hours after a post about library demolition hit the township's Facebook page. Crews can only enter wearing protective masks.
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The building - first a five-and-ten store, then a library in the early 1970s - is set to come down within the week. No one has flipped through the card catalog in half a decade.
Toddlers haven't flipped through picture books at short kiddie tables covered by multicolored umbrellas. There's a different kind of hush over the old, white library on Main Street.Ī book hasn't been checked out in more than seven years.
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