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Frostburg plans one-day Main Street closure for downtown demolition after controlled burn halted
Summary
City staff told the council the derelict downtown building will be demolished in a planned one-day operation that will close Main Street; a related controlled burn of clean demolition material saved an estimated $20,000 but was stopped after public complaints about smoke.
Speaker 1, an unidentified speaker, told the council that the long-vacant downtown building’s interior is largely cleared and that the city plans a one-day demolition likely on Tuesday, with Maryland State Highway assistance to detour traffic and signage. The contractor will stage a large machine overnight behind the building and take the structure down in a short window; Speaker 1 said the best-case road closure is about eight hours but the city will keep the block closed overnight if parts of the structure remain unstable.
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