U-Haul Starts Coming Down for Courthouse
05.22.09
Ye Olde Historic U-Haul building has started to come down to make way for the new Durham County Judicial Center at S. Mangum and Dillard.
Evidently the demolition RFP only included the U-Haul site , and not the Scarborough Funeral Home site, also owned by the county and slated to become a parking deck. That site is still being operated by the Scarborough Funeral Home, and it appears that construction of Scarborough's new Funeral Home and 'Lifestyle Center' out Fayetteville Rd. / MLK has ground to a halt. Scarborough's lease with the county has now been thrice extended from its original termination on September 6, 2007 (to June 30, 2008, December 31, 2008, and June 30, 2009.) When the second extension was approved, it was noted that it would not affect the schedule for the construction of the Judicial Center, but it isn't clear that it has not delayed the project at this point.
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Gary, this has nothing to do with this post, but earlier you had profiled some Bahama buildings. It has now been determined that the Durham Public School System in its wisdom is not only slated to tear down Bahama's Mangum School, but also the old c1920 wooden Home Economics building. Demolition is scheduled for the last week in June....what a shame. I wonder if any of the folks in preservation have known about this one.
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