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Council awards $115,000 asbestos-abatement contract for Parkview Gardens, discusses demo timing and access limits
Summary
Waterloo City Council approved a $115,000 asbestos-abatement contract for the former Parkview Gardens building at 310 Upland Drive and discussed sequencing of abatement and demolition after neighbors raised concerns about inaccessible crawl spaces and the extent of asbestos.
The Waterloo City Council on Aug. 25 voted unanimously to award an asbestos-abatement contract for the former Parkview Gardens building at 310 Upland Drive to Advanced Environmental of Waterloo for $115,000. The council also discussed sequencing the abatement and later demolition and raised questions about areas of the building that testing contractors could not fully access.
City staff said the building is larger than a single-family home and contains asbestos primarily in 9-by-9 flooring tile, roofing materials and some boiler-room pipe wrap. City Planner Eric Trader said bids for demolition and abatement were issued close together; the abatement contractor will complete work before the city gives a notice to…
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