 |
Appliance-a-rama was there Thursday, gone on Saturday. Building in the background is old UNB offices. |
 |
View towards rear of lot next to former Appliance-a-rama, on Saturday afternoon. |
Over the past few weeks, I have noticed internal demolition work being done at the old United National Bank main office at Park Avenue and West 2nd Street.
Workers were manually carrying chunks of what looked like concrete outside through the ATM doors on 2nd Street to two dumpsters parked in the driveway of the former drive-up windows.
On Thursday, I began to make inquiries at City Hall, but no one knew of anything under way at the property. It has been empty since PNC moved the branch over to the County office building complex on Front Street.
PNC recently finished a new self-contained drive-thru at the western end of its former 2nd Street parking lot, which I believe was subdivided.
On Thursday, I had noticed a couple of workers putting temporary fencing up at the remaining parking lot, and some of the UNB building rubble was piled in the parking lot up against Appliance-a-rama.
On Saturday afternoon, I came by and Applianca-a-rama was gone! Knocked down completely! No demolition equipment in sight.
Must have happened on Friday. No sign that I could see of any demolition permit.
So, what is going on?
Plans were in the works as long ago as 2010 for Frank Cretella's Landmark Developers to build an apartment complex on the parking lot. There had even been talk of putting a rooftop restaurant on top of the bank building (see my post about that idea here).
I'll be checking with City Hall on Monday.
View today's CLIPS W here. Not getting yoThur own CLIPS email daily? Click here to subscribe.
About Cookies: This blog is operated by Google, which uses cookies to improve the user's experience. By continuing to read this blog you agree to their use.
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment