The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The owner of a condemned ground zero skyscraper says work will resume next month to take down the building that was ravaged by a fatal fire nearly two months ago.
Avi Schick, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, says workers should finish resealing the former Deutsche bank tower later this month.
Work on the building stopped after the Aug. 18 fire that killed two city firefighters. Before the fire, officials had said the building would be taken down by the end of this year. Schick gave no estimate of when it would be finished.
Twenty-six floors of the former 40-story building have been taken down.
Contractors in December began taking down the building floor by floor and continued work removing toxic debris left there by the collapse of the trade center’s south tower.
It has been plagued by safety violations and accidents since then; investigators blame careless smoking for the blaze that killed the firefighters.