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The Village of Endicott was awarded $6 million for the IBM North Street Demolition Project. The IBM demolition was among just three proposals to receive a special project designation from the state. Special projects are awarded to municipalities where a highly visible and blighted property “causes severe economic injury and has a depressing effect on the overall economic development potential of the community.”
The demolition will take down 550,000 square feet of long-vacant industrial and commercial space. Broome County Executive Jason Garnar previously said the demolition will knock down “basically all of the buildings east of McKinley Avenue” in the unoccupied Old Building Group, which can no longer accommodate modern manufacturing needs.
Endicott Mayor Linda Jackson said Phoenix Investors, owners of the Huron Campus, intend to launch the demolition project “soon” but have yet to provide an exact starting date. Phoenix recently demolished a pedestrian overpass over McKinley Avenue that connected an active building to the Old Building Group.
“I think they’re still working with the DEC because there’s so much contamination that they have to be careful it doesn’t get in the air or anything like that,” said Jackson. “They have to be real careful of that, and then you’ve got the utilities running underneath (the ground). “That’s going to take 3-6 months at the very least.”