Fulton Bank will fill excavated hole; time frame set

Fulton Bank expects to have the excavated site of its future downtown expansion temporarily filled by late April.

The Lancaster-based bank announced the new timetable for the interim East King Street project on Wednesday.

Initially the fill-in project was to be done this fall. But devising a plan for the task took longer than expected, Fulton explained in a letter to neighboring property owners and businesses.

Then, Fulton elected to wait until Jan. 6 to start the process.

The bank wanted to avoid bringing hundreds of dump trucks laden with fill into downtown over the holidays, when the city has extra visitors and events.

Wednesday's statement marks the latest twist to Fulton's plan for constructing a significant center-city expansion.

The addition now on hold indefinitely could cost tens of millions of dollars, industry sources have said, and create hundreds of jobs.

The fill-in project is no small matter either.

It will take about 900 dump truck trips to bring the approximately 12,000 cubic yards of clean fill (clay and stones) needed to fill the hole.

The top six inches will be topsoil, said Jeremy Coble, project manager at Flyway Excavating, the general contractor for the fill-in project.

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