Asbestos removal at MLK School: $95,000

YOUNGSTOWN — It will cost about $95,000 to remove asbestos from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary.

That’s the recent estimate given the city school board as it prepares to raze the 67-year-old building on Covington Street.

The school district will have to foot only 20 percent of the asbestos removal cost.

The building is part of Youngstown’s $182 million school rebuilding program and the state is picking up 80 percent of the package expense.

The school board voted earlier this month to seek bids for the asbestos work.

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