Council to discuss KD Station demolition
By Lynn Zerschling Journal staff writer | Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- The city administration will ask the City Council Monday to take another step toward the eventual demolition of the red-tagged KD Station.
The council will be asked to enter into negotiation with Howard R. Green Co., of Des Moines, an engineering consulting firm, Patty Heagel, the city's community development director, said Friday. The firm would do the engineering work needed to prepare for contractors to tear down the former packing house building in the Stockyards.
"We hope to negotiate a reasonable and cost effective contract and then bring that back to the City Council," she said.
The estimated cost to demolish the building is between $5 and $6 million, which includes removing the asbestos.
Heagel announced the city just received a $100,000 Brownfields grant to help pay for the demolition. Brownfields grants are available to cities to help remove blighted buildings located in places where there is a real or perceived contamination from asbestos, chemicals or other sources.
The earliest the building could be razed is by the end of 2009.
Once the building is removed, Heagel said, there would be between three and five acres of land available for redevelopment.
In other business Monday, the council will be asked to take the first step to provide state assistance to All-Power, Inc., which wants to expand its plant, at 2228 Murray St., in the Bridgeport Industrial Park.
Chris Myres, city economic development specialist, said the council must approve submitting a Targeted Jobs Tax Withholding Tax Credit application to the Iowa Department of Economic Development. The company had considered relocating to South Dakota because of its favorable tax climate.
All Power manufactures conveyors and other equipment for the meat processing industry. Myres said the company will spend in excess of $1 million on the expansion project and will increase its workforce from 51 to 58. This is the first step in the process to obtain the state tax credits.
The council will be asked to enter into negotiation with Howard R. Green Co., of Des Moines, an engineering consulting firm, Patty Heagel, the city's community development director, said Friday. The firm would do the engineering work needed to prepare for contractors to tear down the former packing house building in the Stockyards.
"We hope to negotiate a reasonable and cost effective contract and then bring that back to the City Council," she said.
The estimated cost to demolish the building is between $5 and $6 million, which includes removing the asbestos.
Heagel announced the city just received a $100,000 Brownfields grant to help pay for the demolition. Brownfields grants are available to cities to help remove blighted buildings located in places where there is a real or perceived contamination from asbestos, chemicals or other sources.
The earliest the building could be razed is by the end of 2009.
Once the building is removed, Heagel said, there would be between three and five acres of land available for redevelopment.
In other business Monday, the council will be asked to take the first step to provide state assistance to All-Power, Inc., which wants to expand its plant, at 2228 Murray St., in the Bridgeport Industrial Park.
Chris Myres, city economic development specialist, said the council must approve submitting a Targeted Jobs Tax Withholding Tax Credit application to the Iowa Department of Economic Development. The company had considered relocating to South Dakota because of its favorable tax climate.
All Power manufactures conveyors and other equipment for the meat processing industry. Myres said the company will spend in excess of $1 million on the expansion project and will increase its workforce from 51 to 58. This is the first step in the process to obtain the state tax credits.
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