“The old girl was just too tired to continue,” said Mike Dean, the Beacon Journal’s building and facilities manager. Demolition of the Beacon Journal parking deck got under way October 31 and should be finished by mid-December. Demolition will cost about $60,000.
The parking deck probably will produce up to 800 tons of steel and about 3,640 tons of concrete, The steel beams will be sold to a steel manufacturer to be melted and turned into new steel. The concrete is being hauled to Eslich’s crushing facility at the former site of General Tire near Brittain Road in East Akron, he said. The crushed concrete is used as a base for buildings and new roads, he said.
When the demolition is done, the two ground-level parking areas of the deck will remain with 60 parking spaces, Dean said.
The 10-level, 381-space parking deck at Cedar and South High streets opened in August 1959 The parking deck cost $600,000 to build. That is equal to about $4.5 million today.
The company also has more than 100 parking spaces north of the main office building at High and East Exchange streets, at its Erie warehouse on South Broadway and on Wheeler Alley next to its production building.
Although the company has 411 staffers, its 169 permanent parking spaces are sufficient because Beacon Journal employees work different shifts
Photo by Beacon Journal photographer Paul Tople
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