Toll bridge demolition on hold as Benwood officials seek more information
Benwood officials want more information from Bellaire Toll Bridge owners KDC Investments and Delta Demolition before they’ll allow implosion of the span.
“We’re closer today than we yesterday,” Police Chief Frank Longwell said of progress toward bridge demolition. “But we’re just not where we need to be.”
KDC/Delta Demolition owners Lee and Krystle Chaklos met with Benwood officials last week, Longwell said, and the pair submitted to the city a packet of documents containing information the officials have been seeking since June 2010.
City leaders had wanted KDC to provide such things as a plan for demolishing the bridge, evidence they had secured private property easements, proof of workers’ compensation coverage and state licensing and a “game plan how to get traffic in and out of the industrial park.”
“But the packet they’ve submitted to the city is not accurate,” Longwell said. “A lot of the documents are not clear. … This stuff has to be put in place before we can let anybody take down the bridge.”
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