Demolition On Hold For Manchester Building Gutted By Fire

MANCHESTER Demolition of a fire-gutted Main Street building is on hold until town and insurance company officials complete discussions about salvage, debris removal, site remediation and other issues.

Town administrators met Tuesday morning with insurance company representatives about 801-809 Main St., Fire Chief Robert Bycholski wrote in a news release. There was no resolution of the various issues at the meeting, he said.

Issues of insurance carrier responsibility and assignment of a site remediation contractor have not yet been resolved, the chief wrote in a later news release late Tuesday afternoon.

Another meeting has been scheduled for noon on Wednesday, Bycholski wrote.

The 1905, brick-sided building was destroyed when a fire started in the basement Saturday night. The blaze was not suspicious, Bycholski has said, but no cause has been determined. No one was hurt, but residents of a rooming house in that building and apartments in adjacent buildings were displaced.

The delay in demolition involves communication among separate insurance carriers for the building owner and the two businesses that occupied the building Great Harvest Bread Co. and Connecticut Valley Coin, Assistant Fire Chief David Billings said.

Text by Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant; video by Angelica Spanos, Fox CT

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Demolition On Hold For Manchester Building Gutted By Fire