Demolition for Gettysburg Station will take three months

By Vanessa Pellechio

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Robin Fitzpatrick, president of the Adams County Industrial Development Authority, front, leads Adams County Commissioners Marty Qually, right, Jim Martin, background, and Randy Pheil, left for a ground-breaking ceremony marking the beginning stages of demolition and redevelopment of property in downtown Gettysburg on Thursday. (Shane Dunlap - The Evening Sun)

With hopes of reviving downtown Gettysburg, plans for redevelopment on North Stratton Street are back in motion a decade after they started.

Almost.

Adams County Industrial Development Authority officials were hoping to demolish the 108 N. Stratton St. buildings next week, but they need to wait for hazardous materials to be cleaned out of the three buildings first, said Robin Fitzpatrick, president of Adams County Industrial Development Authority.

But that didn't stop Adams County Industrial Development Authority officials clutching their shovels and sledgehammers to pose in front of the buildings at a ground-breaking event Thursday morning.

Adams County Commissioners Randy Pheil, right, Jim Martin, middle, and Marty Qually, left, pose for a photograph taken by Carroll Valley Mayor Ron Harris on Thursday morning for a ground-breaking ceremony held by the Adams County Industiral Development Authority. The authority is beginning the first stages of demolition and redevelopment of the blighted property in downtown Gettysburg located off of 108 North Stratton Street. (Shane Dunlap The Evening Sun)

"We knew something needed to be done with it," said Kaycee Kemper of Adams County Economic Development Corp. "The buildings became an eyesore."

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Demolition for Gettysburg Station will take three months