By Daily News Staff - October 23rd 2024
BELOIT
Workers have begun prepping the Rock River for the final tear down of the building at 80-100 E. Grand Ave. in downtown Beloit.
Cottage Grove-based R.G. Huston is in charge of the $6.5 million destruction. Workers over the past week began installing barriers on the south side of the section of the former Kerry Inc. headquarters that remains standing over the river.
Huston tore down the section of the building closest to State Street over the last week of September and first week of October. To complete the teardown, Huston will have to divert the river to remove the pilings that are anchored in the river bed.
The local oddity was originally built in 1892 for the Brown Brothers Shoe Store. In 1921, it was expanded to extend over the Rock River in 1921 by the S.S. Kresge Co., which would later change its name to Kmart Corp.
When complete, Beloit-based Hendricks Commercial Properties can begin building a four-story, 48,000-square-foot mixed use building that will include restaurant space, retail stores, commercial offices and residential apartments.
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