Oct. 3, 2022
All of the house windows in a metropolis-owned former manufacturing unit at 575 Piasa St. in Alton have been eliminated as An factor of an asbestos abatement enterprise.
John Badvertman
ALTON – Asbestos considerations have been cited for the eradverticating of all glasswork in a former manufacturing unit constructing at 575 Piasa St.
Based mostly on Alton Building and Zoning Director Greg Caffey, The metropolis-owned constructing went by way of an asbestos abatement course of after asbestos was found between the widows.
Caffey said There’s not a demolition scheduled and no current plans To tradverte the eliminated glass.
The 57,000-sq.-foot industrial constructing, constructed Inside the Nineteen Fifties, was as quickly as occupied by Lenhardt System & Die Co. The construction has been vacant for Pretty A pair of years.
In current occasions, Alton officers have hadvert factors with houseless people breaking into the constructing and starting fires inside it To maintain warmth. A minimal of two of these fires Needed to be extinguished by firefighters.</…….