The city owns parcels,the other guy owns parcels,others own other parcels,the city cannot clear the entire parcel.
Just because it looks like one continuous building,legally it is not.
It was built by assembling multiple lots and they were never merged into one.
Whatever the lot size happens to be on the parcel they want to demolish they can only demolish that,so they can take 100’ from the center but not on each side.
So if they demolish 100’ then they have to spend money securing the open parts of the buildings on each side and by default they could be opening the city up to lawsuits because the argument could be they are compromising the structural integrity of the adjoining property’s.
It’s akin to taking a row of houses in a city block,demolishing one in the center,what have you accomplished outside of creating an empty lot that can only support one more house?
There are lots under that building that are only 25’ wide,what they are demolishing is not going to give them anywhere near enough for a distribution center or anything else substantial.
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