Officials and contractors concede to community pressure.
After community outcry, city officials announced a date change for the highly anticipated demolition of a public-housing high-rise in Germantown.
The Queen Lane Apartments tower, a vacant 16-story building in a residential neighborhood of southwest Germantown, is now scheduled to be imploded on Saturday, Sept. 13, one day earlier than previously planned.
At a Thursday night public meeting inside Mt. Moriah Baptist Church — located just steps away from the doomed building — Samantha Phillips, the city’s director of emergency management, said that Mayor Michael Nutter approved a request to move the building’s implosion forward by one day.
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