Landscape contractor is low bidder on Libbey High School project.
In a move akin to visiting a car dealership to get your teeth fixed, the Toledo Board of Education has awarded the contract to demolish the historic Libbey High School to a landscape contractor.
The board approved a bid of about $940,000 by Evans Landscaping Inc. of Cincinnati to raze the shuttered school. The company’s bid — one of six — was more than $30,000 less than the closest competitor. Demolition is expected to begin in December.
The Ohio School Facilities Commission will fund most of the cost for the demolition, as it will at the former Beverly, East Toledo Junior High, Lagrange, and Newbury buildings, which all had demolition bids approved Wednesday by the board totaling almost $500,000.
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