Asbestos concerns temporarily halt long-awaited demolition in Detroit.
It was heralded as a plan that would rejuvenate some of Detroit’s most dilapidated properties while giving a welcome shot in the arm for the city’s demolition business. But the plan to raze some 3,000 homes was brought to a shuddering but hopefully temporary halt after just one abandoned building was pulled down following the interjection of a state asbestos inspector.
Thomas Vincent of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality shut down crews working in southwest Detroit after they finished razing one house on the city’s list, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday.
The owner of the wrecking firm hired by the city said he had secured the appropriate permits for the demolition work but apparently there was some miscommunication between Detroit and the state of Michigan.
“The state wanted to know about some environmental issues,” said Ashok Badhwar of Glo Wrecking Co.
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This is a subject that is also addressed on Construction Equipment’s Demolition Digest blog.
