PLYMOUTH — Plymouth Building Commissioner Dennis Manuwal and the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety continued to follow up on properties that were cited for code violations during their meeting on Monday.
The latest to come before the Board was the former Plymouth Building at 310 N Michigan St. The property had been cited with an unsafe building order in late January of this year and was given a 30-day window to make the repairs to the electrical and heating system, repair sections of the roof and restore the masonry on the outside of the building.
Louis Heiser, representing the owner of the property listed in county records as 310 N. Michigan LLC, came before the Board to report on progress made in those repairs.
Since the order in January the junction box had been entirely replaced and the roof issues were being addressed. It was apparent when air conditioning units on the roof of the building had been replaced there had been punctures made in the roof.
The heating issues had been addressed but a storage area attached to one of the offices was still without heat.
The internal repairs had been slow due to one of the offices belonging to a counseling service. HIPA laws on privacy limited work to Sundays when no clients were in the building and Hizer said it was difficult to get contractors to agree to work on Sunday.
So far as the facade on the property, a mason will be needed to complete repairs on a 6 to 8-foot section.
Heiser told the Board that his company had purchased the building for $425,000 and to date had spent approximately $490,000 in repairing it.
He told the board that he felt that the repairs required could be completed in 30 days but also said that given some of the variables he was concerned that it might take longer and he didn’t want to promise 30 days and not deliver, asking for 60 days for completing the work.
Board members replied with a certain amount of “skepticism” saying that they had heard such things before, and voted to give the company 30 days to complete the repairs, with the stipulation that consideration would be given if communication on difficulties were communicated to Manuwal in a timely and consistent manner.
