By Erik Harris
For The Tribune
The Pinson City Council, which approved the removal of asbestos from a building located at 4286 Main St. on Aug. 1, agreed to demolish the structure at a cost of $7,500 as soon as the asbestos is cleared.
The building will be replaced with a parking lot. Customers have had limited parking options down Main Street for quite some time and the soon-to-be demolished building will make for a much easier shopping experience.
“We will preserve the original slab perhaps for some off-street parking because that’s been a concern for many years,” said Mayor Hoyt Sanders.
Sanders hopes the building will be flattened by the end of the month.
The council also approved the insurance settlement on a stolen Kawasaki Mule for $3,750. The machine was stolen from the Pinson Valley Youth Association earlier this summer and is now presumed stolen.
“Naturally, it’s still listed as stolen with the sheriff’s department and there are still bulletins out for it, but it has not been recovered in the month or so since it’s come up missing so we’re going to go ahead and settle on it,” Sanders said.
There have been few leads in the investigation, but the $1,000 reward still stands for information regarding the whereabouts of the missing Mule.
Barry Wilson, the director of the Palmerdale Homesteads Community Center, announced that construction on the Insanitarium haunted attraction has begun.
This haunted house is operated by the Pinson Valley High School Arts Department and is designed to raise money for the department, which made roughly $16,000 the first year and $18,000 last year.
The cost is $10 to walk the haunted halls located at the community center on Miles Spring Road in Pinson. The doors will open on the last weekend of September. All ages are welcome.