By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson City Manager Jeff Cantrell believes closing on the Atrium purchase will happen in just a few weeks.
"We've come a long way on that," Cantrell said Monday. "The only thing left to do now is the environmental piece of it and its not the full spectrum of environmental work that has to be done. It's just the initial piece. We're already engaged in doing that. Once we get that accomplished, we don't think that should take more than several weeks, maybe three, we'll be the proud owners."
Once the city holds the deed, then they can work on demolition plans.
"I think the wintertime will give us an opportunity to put some RFP's together on demolition," Cantrell said. "Not that we would take demolition on during the winter. I don't think that we would. It would probably be a spring type of project. That's where we would spend our time with that project."
There is nothing yet on the council agenda regarding the project until those environmental steps are completed.