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side wall and also on the front of LaSalle Street and they are going to pull the corners <br />down. What we're trying to do is save the inside west wall which adjoins the J.C. Lauber. <br />Sheet Metal Company. That wall will be taken down until it is approximately two foot <br />above our roof line so that we have a parapet wall there. <br />JOANN SPORLEDER: So then'it will be above the one story structure to east of the <br />two story structure. t <br />PAUL SCHMITT: That's correct. We would like to keep it even with the cornice work <br />that we have there now. <br />JOANN SPORLEDER: Would it be possible to salvage the stone section on the front <br />of the building on LaSalle Street? <br />CATHERINE HOSTETLER: It's tin. <br />JOANN SPORLEDER: That whole section is tin, <br />CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Yes, it is. <br />JOANN SPORLEDER: Could that be salvaged when you're taking the building down? <br />PAUL SCHMITT: It would be like building it almost to take it down. It is all masonry <br />right behind it and I don't know exactly how it could be dismantled and taken down. <br />You will never get it down in one piece -1 guarantee you that. To strip all that cornice <br />work off there would be quite a project. Part of the roof would have to come off to even <br />get to all of the parts that hold it together. <br />JOANN SPORLEDER: You are taking the roof down anyway, aren't you? <br />PAUL SCHMITT: That is correct; but, the manner in which they demolish buildings is <br />not exactly the way that you would go and try to dig artifacts out of the ground like they . . <br />do in Egypt. <br />JOHN OXIAN: Yes, but, the commission can ask you to save it because you are . <br />knocking down a landmark and you are taking the landmark completely out of the <br />picture. We as a commission can ask you and can require you to do that. The company <br />who is going to demolish your building is Ritschard Brothers, right? <br />PAUL SCHMITT: That's correct. <br />JOHN OXIAN: Ritschard Brothers knows how to do something the right way if they <br />have to do it because they have done things like this before.- So it's not like they don't <br />know how to do a proper demolition job: <br />LYNN PATRICK: Do you have an estimate of cost on the demolition job from <br />Ritschard Brothers? <br />PAUL SCHMITT: Yes. <br />LYNN PATRICK: What is the cost? <br />PAUL SCHMITT: You should have a copy of that. <br />LYNN PATRICK: Do we have a copy of that, Catherine? <br />CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Yes we do, it is in the form of a letter. It is a demolition <br />permit which includes: utility disconnection and underground utility locations, filed the <br />asbestos notification forms, set up barricades for traffic control as required, demolish the <br />building and dispose of same offsite, furnish and place fill as required to back fill the <br />basement to surrounding grades. Will perform the work listed as for the above sum of <br />$35,683.00 dollars. <br />PAUL SCHMITT: I have already incurred another loss of $1,100.00 dollars because <br />they were issued a permit to go ahead and demolish the building and actually somebody <br />in that office messed up and gave them a permit and they weren't supposed to. So here I <br />W <br />