The Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner reports that Fairbanks’ North Star borough is hoping to buy a 44,000-square-foot warehouse on Well Street to use as the site of a new residential recycling facility.
“It’s our best option right now,” Jim Williams, chief of staff for borough Mayor Karl Kassel, told the newspaper. “The public has pretty much directed us to kind of go down this path and look at this recycling thing and try to make it work.”
Mayor Kassel requested the assembly pay $420,000 to purchase and remodel the facility. Williams added that using an existing facility was decided to be more affordable than building a new facility, which was estimated to cost $5.6 million.
“The locations is good,” he says in the article. “We can use the building for other things. We’ve got space issues. We could use it for records storage.”
The proposal will be submitted to the Borough Assembly at its meeting Aug. 11, 2016.
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