Easton's Delaware Terrace to be demolished in January 2009

The Morning Call report's, after five years of planning, Easton's Delaware Terrace public housing development is to be demolished early next year, city housing officials said Tuesday.

The 55-year-old complex of 250 apartments, which finished emptying out earlier this year, is to be razed to make way for the planned HOPE VI project. At Tuesday's meeting of the Easton Housing Authority, Executive Director Gene Pambianchi said demolition should begin in ''mid- to late January.''

In the meantime, city firefighters might get to fill some of the building with smoke for training, Pambianchi said. ''There'd be no live fires,'' he stressed, but the firefighters could practice ripping through walls and roofs. More HERE