BLUEFIELD DEMOLITIONS Bluefield To Demolish 100 Blighted Houses
Reported by: Associated Press
Web Producer: Heath Harrison
Reported: Mar. 17, 2013 3:01 PM EDT
Updated: Mar. 17, 2013 10:06 PM EDT
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Bluefield, Mercer County
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
Bluefield officials plan to demolish 100 blighted houses during the next two years.
City manager Jim Ferguson said 50 structures will be torn down this year and 50 will be razed in 2014. Seven houses have been torn down so far this year.
Ferguson told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that if the city achieves its goal, the demolition list would be reduced to about a dozen structures.
He said the city is looking for grant money to speed up the demolitions.
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