Article: Pitchfork contractor speaks of facade feud

A contractor who feuded with the owner of the Pitchfork Records building is disputing the owner's account of why he left the job.

Steve DeSilvio, who owns Sherwood Masonry, said he left because of property owner Evangelos Lillios, whom DeSilvio calls "the most difficult man I've ever dealt with."

Lillios had recently hired DeSilvio to fix the bricks and replace broken mortar on the Main Street building, as part of a storefront renovation project that has been discussed for the last four years. In a recent Monitor article detailing the delays in the building's renovations, Lillios said DeSilvio had walked off the job after Lillios asked him to cut protruding nails off the front of the ...

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