Old Hardin sugar factory set to fall.
With the dust barely settled and the recriminations over this weekend’s failed attempt to shoot a pair of refinery buildings at Sugarland, another sugar factory is set to fall.
The old Holly Sugar factory in Hardin, a landmark since it opened in 1937, is being torn down to provide new equipment storage for a Billings demolition and salvage business.
Amber Yochum of Yochum Contracting said the giant industrial building won’t totally disappear. “We really want to leave the stack, if it is safe,” she said. “It’s a monument to the people of Hardin.”
Although still mulling ideas for the site, Yochum said the company will involve the city of Hardin as plans progress. “We have a lot of ideas,” she said. “We don’t know which we’ll decide to use.”
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