By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
The old and vacant apartment complex on north Vine Street in Hoisington
will soon be demolished, but first asbestos mitigation will begin this month.
The City of Hoisington acquired the vacant Windgate apartments in January 2022
for $200,000 and considered razing the structures to create housing lots. After
hearing proposals to renovate two of the apartment buildings into a child
daycare home, the Hoisington City Council voted in May 2022 to nix the idea and
have it all demolished instead.
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Hoisington City Manager Jonathan Mitchell said the asbestos mitigation will
begin March 20 and should take six weeks to complete.
"Crews will start working with GSI Consultants to do the asbestos abatement on those five buildings," said Mitchell. "We're not keeping one for a daycare or an apartment. We're going to get all the asbestos removed from those."
Following the asbestos removal, the city council will receive bids for the
demolition.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) provided Hoisington
$75,000 to assist in the asbestos mitigation.