old City Hall East may look like a vacant fortress looming over Ponce de Leon Avenue, but the developer already has crews working to resuscitate its 2 million square feet with the goal of reusing or recycling all of its parts, even to the point of turning an internal railway into a linear park 30 feet above the ground.
"It doesn't look like we're doing anything, but we've been in there since October," said Jim Irwin, vice president of development for Green Street Properties. "We're in the demolition stage now, and we mandated that the subcontractors recycle everything."
On Thursday, workers were busy stripping acres of maple hardwood floors that will become the signature surface for what is now named Ponce City Market, which is scheduled to open in 2014 with condos, restaurants and stores. Others were separating metal for recycling
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