But citywide deconstruction requirement will again be suspended until March 2022. By Jeramey Jannene - Feb 2nd, 2021 04:30 pm //end headline wrapper ?>1236-1238 N. 14th St. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
After years of false starts, a new contractor is advancing a city program designed to create jobs and protect the environment. Since November, White Glove Group deconstructed, not demolished, five dilapidated, city-owned homes and is working on a sixth.
The Department of Neighborhood Services expects the firm to complete the remaining four in its initial contract in the coming weeks.
But problems still remain. For the third year in a row, the Common Council will suspend a 2018 citywide requirement that houses built before 1930 must be deconstructed, whether publicly or privately razed, and not demolished. The suspension will be in effect until March 1st, 2022.