Demolition begins at former A&P plant

**James** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-20-2005, 07:21 AM

(I am trying to find out who is doing the work)

For more than 20 years, the former A&P plant has stood as mute testament to economic hardship.

Now, the walls are finally starting to come down.

Contractors hired by the property's new owner, Developers Diversified Realty Corp. of Ohio, started knocking down the outer walls of the 1.5 million-square-foot facility Monday morning.

By summer, Developers Diversified Realty hopes to have new retail tenants on the site, including a possible Wal-Mart Supercenter and four or five smaller businesses.

The sprawling facility was billed as the world's largest food processing plant when it was built by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. in 1965. It closed in 1982, throwing 1,000 employees out of work.

Robert Kulinski · #2 (**permalink**) 12-20-2005, 09:30 AM

That plant isn't too far from Watkins Glen. I go right by it when I go to the races. It was one of those projects that every wrecker drives by and says "Damn, that would be a nice wrecking job"
That's the strange thing about this business, once you get in it you never look at a structure the same way. last night at the Ravens game I was in line at the food concession looking up at the column and beam connections. Everybody thought I was spacing out.