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Article: Freedlander demolition scheduled to begin today
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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By BRYAN SCHAAF
Staff Writer
WOOSTER -- For 130 years, it held up against the worst Mother
Nature could throw at it.
It survived a complete revamping of its famous facade.
It even withstood thousands of bargain-crazed shoppers year after
year.
But the former Freedlander's Department Store building in
downtown Wooster won't survive any longer.
Crews from Cleveland-based B&B Wrecking spent Wednesday putting
the final pieces of fencing around the structure, and anticipate
beginning dismantling today.
A representative from the company said he expects the structure
to be completely knocked down in a week, followed by a lengthy
removal process.
"It's a bittersweet day," said Margo Broehl, ...