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

Easton, PA HOPE VI Bigger and Better

Source: Morning Call

The Easton Housing Authority voted 3-0 during a special meeting Tuesday to build more rental units and fewer homes for sale as part of its $73 million Delaware Terrace revitalization project.

The authority will demolish 250 units at the South Side neighborhood and build 96 rental units and 48 homes for sale.

The board commissioners -- Chairman the Rev. George Martinez, Paul Felder and Dawn Washington -- also voted to allow Executive Director Gene Pambianchi to begin negotiations with a company chosen to become the authority's developer on the project called HOPE VI.

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