Michiana Contracting crews continue to work on demolishing the inside of the Plymouth City Building to make way for improvements inside the structure.
City Attorney Sean Surrisi previously explained that renovations will be made to the clerk-treasurer’s office to improve customer relations and staff productivity. The city purchased the adjacent chamber of commerce building and crews will remodel the second floor to accommodate an expansion of room for the city council chambers and conference space. In the same project, the mayor’s office and his assistant’s office will be moved upstairs in the city building. An elevator and staircase will be added.
Surrisi said the project is on schedule.
“They still have another week or more of demolition,” said Surrisi. “They’ve pretty much cleared out the second floor of the city hall and chamber of commerce building. Most of that is getting reorganized. A lot of the walls have come down and it’s pretty wide open up there.”
The contractors have found a treasure during their demolition.
“On the first floor, part of the project was to expose the wall when you walk in the front door of the clerk’s office and look to the back there. There’s a wall that had file cabinets, but there’s a giant, round door to the vault that is back there that used to be exposed when it was a bank but it had been walled over. We took that wall down and the vault door looks great so I think we’re going to keep that just as a focal point and a nice feature there. It adds a little history and it looks neat.”
The clerk-treasurer’s office is currently conducting business at 118 N. Michigan Street and will remain there until the completion of the renovation project. The mayor’s office is also at that location. The drop box on Garro Street will be available for any payment of water bills after hours.
