Date set to remove wireless towers that have halted hotel demolition.
The Verizon Wireless cell phone towers that have stymied demolition of the former Executive Inn parking garage are slated to be removed on April 15.
Demolition of the structure, which must be removed to make way for a new hotel, was originally scheduled for mid-March.
Thursday, the city public works board voted unanimously to allow Verizon to install a temporary cell site on city property off Waterworks Road. The company will lease the space temporarily for $2,000 a month, according to Ed Zeimer, executive director of the city department of transportation.
The towers have been a thorn in the side of the planned Hyatt Place Hotel.
Local developer Martin Woodruff plans to build a 220-room, $30 million hotel in the place of the parking structure. The project will include underground parking for the hotel.
AT&T also had towers on the building, but removed them a week before the March demolition date. Verizon’s lingering equipment delayed the project to Monday.
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