Proposals to raze old S&T building come in under bid estimates

YOUNGSTOWN — Proposals to demolish the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. headquarters are considerably below the city’s estimate.

The apparent low bid is $72,000 from American Contracting, a Canfield company.

That’s about 12 percent of the city’s $594,000 estimate to remove asbestos and demolish the dilapidated structure on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the main entrance to V&M Star.

Of the 10 proposals opened today by city officials for the work, only one was over the estimate.

The cost of the work is coming from a state grant.

The demolition work will probably begin in August and take up to 90 days to complete.

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