Northampton County is moving full speed ahead to deal with the falling-down Glendon Hotel.
In July, the borough approved a zoning variance for a plan to demolish what is left standing of the hotel on Main Street in Glendon, and replace it with five townhomes.
The next step is finding funding for demolition. Engineers have told county officials the cost for demo, land development and site work would be about $350,000.
“The big unknown is how much rock is there, and that’s really going to drive costs,” Mark Hartney, deputy director of the Department of Community and Economic Development, previously told the General Purpose Authority.
Questions to Tina Smith, director of the county’s Department of Community and Economic Development, about the project were referred to Becky Bartlett, deputy director of administration.
Demolition will depend on acquiring funding first, Bartlett said.
Bartlett confirmed the county has applied for a $300,000 state blight remediation grant, but has not heard back about the application.
Applicants can ask for up to $300,000 for items including demolition and site prep. It requires a 10 percent match, which would be supplied by the county’s General Purpose Authority.
Once the building at 124-126 Main St. is gone, then the county would move to land development subdivision plans and go out for a preferred developer.
GPA officials have lauded the work done by the county and its DCED on a solution.
Over the past seven years, borough officials have struggled to address the hotel as it has continued to rot in place.
Albert Rutherford bought the Glendon Hotel on April 1, 1987 for $110,000, and previously told lehighvalleylive.com that he had hoped to restore it.
In 2013, council ordered Rutherford to clean up the property. After a plan to convert the hotel to apartments never materialized, that same year the borough ordered Rutherford to tear it down.
The borough declared the property unsafe in 2015, and by 2016 there was a proposal for the borough to take over razing the structure. Officials ultimately decided against securing a grant to pursue demolition.
Since then, Rutherford has failed to pay taxes on the property.
He is still listed as the owner in Northampton County online property records, but the county tax office is listed as the contact address after the property failed to sell at county tax sale. It is the lone Glendon property on the county’s repository list of unsold parcels.
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