520 Norris coming down

Friday, August 3, 2012

Wendell Peters of P&G Excavating knocks the underpinnings from the second story of the apartment house at 520 Norris in McCook, Nebraska, Thursday morning. Peters and his daughter, Debra Petsch, have demolished this house, a smaller apartment house on the alley behind it and a single-story former beauty salon next door to make room for Red Willow County's new law enforcement center and jail. Petsch chuckled about the heat rising toward triple digits and the increasing humidity, "Who needs a sauna?," as she emptied the house of its last salvageables before its scheduled demolition. Maris Construction, also of McCook, demolished a fourth big house, on the corner, in March of 2011.

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