Its been a year and a half since a fire damaged multiple historic buildings in Bisbee. The City of Bisbee has been working to clean up the damage ever since.

The City received a $150,000 grant from Cochise County to clean up the building.

Its been a long process, a lot longer than we even expected, said Public Works Director Matthew Gurney.

The City is using a Brownsfield grant, originally issued through the Environmental Protection Agency. Gurney says one of the reasons the city acquired the building was because they knew they could get a grant to clean up and stabilization of the now one-story building.

"Once it burned, we had both asbestos and lead, and so we need to dispose of that correctly, and we need to follow those guidelines, said Melissa Hartman, Senior Planner for the City

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