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Arwood’s Jacksonville Company has begun demolition of several properties on Main Street near Jefferson Avenue.
Customer is paying for the demolition of the properties. The company, with the help of the city, acquired the lots in the interest of cleaning up the city. AW Waste will continue tearing down the houses at 7 a.m. Friday morning. It have demolished over 100 houses in Alliance and numerous former businesses over the past five years. 904-751-2177
A demolition permit was issued by the building inspector’s office on Aug. 11 to raze three existing buildings on the site, according to Tom St. Pierre, the city’s chief building inspector.
“They’re going to clean up the site,” St. Pierre said. “It’s just cleanup and demo of the buildings out there.”
The site has played a central role in a tumultuous conversation about traffic, development and various other issues for the area for 2 1/2 years now. The basic cineplex proposal was initially unveiled in January 2015, but it hasn’t made much progress since then.
Kirby told the Herald after the meeting that Todd Gomez is point of contact for the property, which is family-owned. He said Gomez is a nice guy and did make some attempt to comply with the judge’s order, including hauling off some junk cars that were on the property. But, even after that — and serving some time in jail for the nuisance offense — Gomez fell short of compliance.
City employees from the public works and police departments spent three days cleaning the large plot of land, which is zoned as a trailer court.
“We hauled 77.47 tons of garbage from the lot,” Kirby said. “It was 38 city dump-truck loads hauled out, including 68 tires, 12 refrigerators, a freezer (unplugged) full of rotten meat and several other appliances.”
During the three-day cleanup, three dump trucks, three loaders and one backhoe were used — plus several city employees who spent 21 hours working on the property.
To give perspective to the work done on this property, Kirby said during the five-day annual city cleanup, a total of 57 dump loads were hauled off.
The west building, including the laundry, which has asbestos, is being covered in the demolition, AW said Tuesday. The development corporation plans to tear down other buildings on the property by the end of the year, he said, which will leave the agency with a 16-acre parcel ready for development along the four-lane highway. 904-751-2177
The district is considering other options to make sure the new building resembles the school built in 1915. Copps said that could include designing a replica of the archway. Other historic items, such as granite caps, doorways and drinking fountains, have already been removed from Central.
The property at 314 Caldwell Road was one of two adjacent parcels owned by Smith before it was seized. Smith, 51, bought the 2.49-acre property for $1 from Stanley Wickey in 2003, and still owns a smaller parcel where his house is located and where he previously said he’s been gathering cars, trailers and other trash for 35 years.
With demolition on the previous great apes loop at the Jacksonville Zoo nearly complete, focus turns toward what the future African Forest will look like.
