Cleveland power plant undergoing demolition

Demolition is underway at FirstEnergy's Lake Shore Power Plant in Cleveland. According to a report on NewsNet 5.

The old coal-fed power plant built in 1911, located off of East 72^nd St. used to provide electricity to the city. The plant, which occupies most of the 60-acre site closed in April 2015. Environmental remediation, including removing hazardous materials, asbestos and fly ash has taken place over the last several months.

According to the report, the abatement cost around $10 million and ash removal cost another $350,000. The plan is to leave the property in a green-space condition. Some had wanted to save the building and smokestacks but the building had reportedly deteriorated since its shutdown because it had no heat.

Crews will eventually open up the walls of the main buildings to remove the generating machinery for scrap before the grand goodbye early next year.

Explosive demolition could be employed in February 2017 to take down part of the buildings and smokestack.