The Common Council Thursday night voted 5-0 to contract with Dan’s Hauling & Demo. for $517,100 to demolish seven properties in the city.
“From what I understand, they’re ready to start immediately,” Sixth Ward Councilman Wrandy Siarkowski said of the demolition project.
The council conducted a special meeting Thursday night after tabling the vote on the contract bid Tuesday night to give the council more time to review the bids received from Dan’s Hauling & Demo., located in Albany, and Jackson Demolition Services, Inc., from Schenectady, which had bid $620,414.
Mayor Vince DeSantis said the original resolution on the council’s agenda had been to accept the bid from Jackson Demolition Services, but that was based on an analysis that had an incorrect estimate for the number of days the project is likely to take. He said originally Dan’s had estimated it would take 94 days and Jackson had thought it would take their company 77, which would have made Dan’s more expensive because of the $600 to $700 per-day air-monitoring cost requirements associated with the contract.
“Our consultants (HRP Associates, of Clifton Park) called both contractors and asked them how they would attack this, and how many days it would take,” DeSantis said. “Dan’s Hauling was 64 days, because they said they would engage two crews, and Jackson’s was 72 days. So, then we did the whole analysis with those number of days, and Dan’s was ultimately less. We just did a lot of homework on this, because it’s a big project, at least half a million dollars, and really when you add the air monitoring, and all the things we have to do in addition to that, plus the ($25 per ton) landfill tipping fees — it turns out this will cost us in the neighborhood of $700,000.”
Council members in attendance at the special meeting agreed with the updated cost analysis. Councilman-at-large Wayne Peters and 1st Ward Councilwoman Marcia Weiss were absent from the meeting.
The money for the demolition project will come from two sources:
• $174,158 worth of New York state Dept. of Environmental Conservation reimbursement funding the city received years ago for brownfield remediation work the city had done at the former Pan American Tannery and Reisdorf tannery
• $469,592 from the $500,000 the city had budgeted for its Property Disposition Committee program, taken from the city’s $1.5 million federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) grant.
DeSantis said the property demolitions are an important step forward for the city of Gloversville.
“One of the aims of the city has been to eliminate these derelict, eyesore properties, and one of the benefits of that is it increases the value of every other property in the neighborhood,” he said. “Several of these are in places where there are decent houses, with good people who are investing in their homes, and this really increases the value of those homes, and in other cities — it’s been proven — that eliminating vacant buildings, derelict buildings, that actually has a positive effect on the crime rate. That’s been documented.”
Here is the list of properties Gloversville plans to demolish and DeSantis description of the work that will be done:
• Tradition Leather property, located at 30-41 W. 11th Ave. — “That’s removing the debris for the fire there, and the demolition and removal of two of the major buildings on that site. There are two other buildings on that site that are valuable, and we’ll be leaving those, but that will be cleaned up so it is no longer an eye sore for that neighborhood.”
• 1 Rose Street, the former John Johns Buckskin Co. — “That is the ruins of a building, and also fire debris, and those will be cleaned up.”
• 70 Division Street, formerly Papa’s Glove Co. — “A few years ago we demolished a four-story, wood-frame building there, which was very dangerous, and if it had ever caught fire it would have been very dangerous for that neighborhood. And what’s left is the foundation of it, and the foundation kind of resembles like a Roman ruin, the walls were made out of stone, and all of that. We want to get rid of that and get down to the soil and actually plant grass there. There’s a neighboring house up the street, 74 Division St. that will be taken down as well, that’s also city owned.
93 S. Main St., formerly Quinn’s Paper Boxes — “It’s actually in danger of collapse. We did a couple of studies on that. Steve Smith (former 4th Ward city councilman) has written a letter (to the county), and we’re going to be looking for a lower (landfill) tipping fee on that.”
• 6 West 8th Ave. — DeSantis said the house to be torn down is the first house on the southside of the street.
• 7 Grandoe Lane — A former apartment building the city acquired in 2021 for $16,542 from Fulton County’s list of Gloversville property tax foreclosures, one of ten parcels the city bought from the county for a total of $145,404. The property had tenants living at it and not paying rent until they were evicted by the city after a months-long process in December 2021. “That was the one that was not worthy of rehab, so we’re demolishing it, which will be a benefit to the neighborhood,” DeSantis said.
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