The City of Crisfield cleared away a waterfront building as a small crowd looked on yesterday morning.
The razing of the John T. Handy Company is part of a series of efforts to improve the City Dock.
Tim Howard, director of the nearby J. Millard Tawes Museum, told the Salisbury Daily Times that he remembers when the building held a soft-shell crab packing operation before the facility was moved to a larger building on Seventh Street.
Mayor Percy Purnell says that the site will be connected to the adjacent dock either as a green space, parking lot or another building.
The building and small adjacent lot was recently purchased by the city for $171-thousand.
Once the structure is demolished the dock’s concrete pad will be poured later this week replacing the old wooden structure hit by Hurricane Sandy.
