Chairman: LMDC Aims To Have Plan For Bank Tower Demolition Soon

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The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation hopes to have a work plan for deconstructing the former Deutsche Bank building near ground zero within the next month, the corporation’s chairman, Avi Schick, said yesterday.

Mr. Schick would not speculate on when work on the building would resume. If the LMDC and regulators “are able to come to a quick agreement on a plan and a scope of work, then we are pretty confident that the process of identifying the right companies to do that work won’t stand in the way of starting quickly,” he said.

Mr. Schick also said the LMDC is “thinking” it will take a different approach to deconstructing the building when it resumes work, discontinuing the previous practice of deconstructing and decontaminating the building simultaneously. Separating the tasks could minimize risks and lessen the complexity.

A fire in the building in August killed two firefighters and halted its demolition. It was being dismantled after it was damaged and contaminated by toxic debris in the attacks of September 11, 2001.


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