Demolition work starts on Boyd Community Center in OHara

Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 9:00p.m. Updated 5 hours ago

Barb Satler spent a little more time than usual looking out of her office window this week.

The interim executive director of Boyd Community Center was eager for crews to arrive and knock the first bricks from a vacant portion of the building.

The move signifies the first step toward construction of a new $8.2 million facility, which is to start this summer.

It has been extremely exciting here the last few days, Satler said.

I'm looking forward to moving ahead with this project.

Demolition was scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. today (Thursday), nearly six weeks after Ritenour & Sons contractors landed the $166,000 job.

Satler said work was delayed while the contractors waited for asbestos-removal permits from Allegheny County.

O'Hara Engineer Chuck Steinert said fencing was erected around a portion of the building last week. Over the last several days, trees were removed from the perimeter of the 11-acre campus along Powers Run Road.

Demolition is the first step in a long-awaited project to replace the worn community center, where programs long ago outgrew the cramped classrooms.

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