CRISIS 2 - #35 - DEMOLITION GARAGE

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The developer of the former Dock site is asking the Davenport City Council for an extension to an agreement requiring that the former restaurant be demolished by year's end.

Todd Raufeisen said "significant resistance" by the city's Levee Improvement Commission delayed the overall timeline for the project, and spring flooding could add significant cost to site preparation. He is asking aldermen to give him until March to tear the building down.

The matter is not yet scheduled for a council vote, but it is expected in January after the deadline has come and gone.

City Administrator Craig Malin said Monday that the delays in reaching a development agreement were taken into consideration when finishing the deal. The developer will not be assessed a penalty, he wrote in an email, adding, "Davenports an investment friendly place."

Raufeisen said that suggesting a deadline change was too risky.

"The development agreement never was tweaked, even though we had all those delays with the Levee Commission" he said Monday. "If we tried to change the dates, it could have delayed the whole process because it's possible any amendments would have required public input."

The demolition delay should not suggest that work is not being done on the site, he said, adding that he has met several times with city engineering staff to plan a flood-proof demolition process. He also has met with officials from the Rhythm City Casino, the Dock's downriver neighbor, to work out access issues.

"We have well over $400,000 invested in this puppy right now," he said of the project. "We wouldn't be spending that money if we weren't confident."

The deadline extension will eliminate the possibility of adding another $100,000 or more to the demolition cost, he said.

"If we were to demolish the building now, winter conditions prevent us from completing the caissons, infrastructure and future parking lot immediately thereafter," he wrote in letter to Malin dated Friday. "If the Dock building were to be demolished and backfilled without the building footprint and site being protected by new concrete, a typical spring flood event could cause siltation inside the existing crawl space or could cause the new fill material to be compromised by siltation or flood waters.

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NORTH AURORA The North Aurora Activity Center will soon see the wrecking ball.

Trustees voted Monday to approve a $355,739 contract with Site Recovery Services Inc. to demolish the building at 1 N. Lincolnway. The North Aurora Activity Center has been closed since March because of structural damage. Trustees in May decided the building was not worth saving.

The village will pay for the demolition from the insurance money received for the villages property loss $68,764 as well as funds from the closing of the North Aurora Activity Center fund $92,002. Other funds will come from reserves in the villages capital projects fund.

Demolition of the building is expected to start in early February, following asbestos removal and the removal of underground storage tanks, Village Administrator Steve Bosco said.

Trustees on Monday also approved an ordinance permitting village staff to dispose of or sell surplus items from the building.

Some of the items such as bricks with carvings may be retained by the village for historical purposes and other bricks can be made available for residents who would like to have a historical memento of the building, Bosco told village trustees.

The building is not currently within a tax increment financing district, but the TIF statutes provide that costs associated with redevelopment, including demolition costs, may be eligible for future reimbursements with TIF funds if those costs are included as part of a future redevelopment plan, North Aurora Finance Director Bill Hannah told trustees.

Trustees on Monday also approved an ordinance approving the demolition costs for reimbursement through tax increment financing funds.

It doesnt obligate you, it simply provides the mechanism in the future, Hannah said.

Share and Care Learning Center, which was one of the main tenants in the North Aurora Activity Center, found a new permanent home in the former Rainbow Tile building at 12 John St. in North Aurora.

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December 15, 2014 Updated Dec 15, 2014 at 11:10 PM EST

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21Alive) Demolition begins on an old school building that will be converted into a park.

Around 11 a.m. Monday, a crane was brought in to demolish part of the old Franklin School building. Fort Wayne City officials say that site will be transformed into a park.

The Franklin Junior High building is predicted to be around 100-years old. It was most recently used as a training site for the Fort Wayne Police Academy, but residents say the buildings been sitting empty for the past couple years. Since then, there have been several proposals on what to do with it, like office space or housing, but Fort Wayne Parks Department Director, Al Moll, says the neighborhoods surrounding the school have been pushing for a park.

The Parks Department predicts the project will cost approximately $1 million. The City is investing $335,000, but the two-phase project is still $465,000 short on funding.

The Parks Dept. has already drawn-up some plans for the four acre space, which is unofficially called Franklin Park. It will include a splash pad, pathways, festival plaza, and the old firing range will be renovated into a pavilion. The three limestone arches that are part of the schools original architecture will be preserved and used as an entryway to the park.

On Monday night, a public input meeting was held to see if residents would like to add or remove anything from the proposed plans. Residents suggested things like benches, picnic tables, shaded areas, decorative lighting and sculpture art. However, what residents seemed to want the most is an office built into the pavilion for the neighborhood police liaison.

"Police presence in the neighborhood is very important. If they've got their cars parked there then it really helps us. I don't think we'll have many problems then, said Bud Mendenhall, President of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association.

"We got real used to when the Police Academy was here and the police presence is always a good thing to have, so we want to encourage that again. Police officers also get to know the neighbors then, said Kay Smith-Shoemaker, President of the North Highlands Neighborhood Association.

Phase I of the project will cost $600,000 and includes site development and the splash pad. Phase II entails renovating the pavilion, building the festival plaza, and landscape improvements at a cost of $150,000. Theres also a $100,000 contingency.

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Crews began dismantling Monday one of the last few structures on this year's downtown Bettendorf demolition schedule to pave the way for a new Interstate 74 bridge and the realignment of State and Grant streets.

The red former machine shop building at 329 11th St. became the latest in the downtown area to be razed. The demolition is being done by Valley Construction.

Doug Rick, the I-74 project manager for the Iowa Department of Transportation, or DOT, said the Rock Island-based construction company also has received the bid to demolish the former Crescent Cleaners at 1303 Grant St. and the former Q-C Mart at 1402 State St.

Theyve already started on all three, he said, adding that the red concrete barn-like building is the 38th structure to be demolished on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River as part of the I-74 project.

Bill Hass, the president of Valley Construction, said crews have disconnected the utilities at all three buildings and should begin tearing down the former Crescent Cleaners by Thursday and the former Q-C Mart around Jan. 1.

Valley Construction will receive about $64,000 for the three demolition jobs, Rick said.

When their work is completed, 40 buildings will have been removed so work can begin on the realignment of the Grant and State one-way streets.

In total, the DOT has spent just more than $16 million in acquisition costs and relocation expenses for 44 properties and nearly $755,000 in demolition fees. Two of the acquired properties were vacant lots, and Ross' Restaurant and its former drive-through, which is a separate building, will be the last two to come down in downtown Bettendorf. (It came to light Monday that the owner of Ross' is exploring an option to stay downtown.)

Rick said the DOT plans to seek bids on the roadwork contract for realigning Grant and State streets by mid-January so construction can begin in the spring.

Hass said his company, which has demolished about 12 buildings in downtown Bettendorf, is interested in handling the $13 million realignment project that will carry over into the 2016 construction season.

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