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Beaver City staff to pursue demolition and rebuild options for city center after structural review
Summary
An engineering review found substantial structural and seismic retrofit costs for the Belknap (city center) building; councilors leaned toward demolition and rebuilding a single-level city center, directed staff to meet with the insurer and pursue potential CIB grant timing and architect services.
Beaver City Council on March 24 heard a structural assessment of the city center (Belknap School building) and directed staff to pursue options that include demolishing the hazardous portions and planning a single-level replacement rather than costly seismic retrofit.
Kyle Blacker, who led the site walk-through and assessment, told councilors the building contains multiple types of masonry and construction approaches that would make a seismic retrofit and full rehabilitation expensive. Blacker cited the 2021 International Existing Building Code and said if a project replaces more than 50% of certain structural elements the building must be brought up to modern seismic…
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