City to demolish 25 properties...
by News Department on 07/07/15
Pottsville City Administrator Thomas A. Palamar said the city is planning to demolish 25 blighted properties over the next five years.
According to the Republican Herald, the project, which is projected to cost approximately $200,000, is part of the anti-blight initiative the city embarked in April 2012, when it established the Pottsville Blight and Nuisance Task Force. But, as far as Palamar can recall, it’s the first multi-year demolition project that Pottsville has ever attempted.
Palamar said the city uses federal Community Development Block Grant funds to finance the demolition projects, then puts a lien for the cost of the demolition on the properties.
