New owner will allow salvage of usable items before hospital demolition

The borough plans to pull the standby electrical generator, fire extinguishers and other usable items from the former hospital building before the new owner of the property tears down the structure to make way for a residential development.

Wayne Johnson, the Georgia-based real estate developer who planned to close on the purchase of the hospital property this week, is allowing the borough time to salvage what it wants from the building, Borough Manager Mason Villarma said May 29.

“The borough can take whatever they want from there,” Johnson said in an interview Sunday, June 2.

The borough has...

 

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