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Crashing Down: Cockeysville Distillery Demolished
The distillery, damaged by hurricanes Agnes and Sandy, was torn down Sunday morning.
It finally happened.
Baltimore County tore down the Cockeysville Distillery Sunday morning, and when demolition began Patch user W. Craig Kenney was there to catch the action on camera.
The old distillery suffered a partial wall collapse during last year's hurricane Sandy, according to a Patch report. The same story points out that the distillery was also damaged during 1972's hurricane Agnes.
Baltimore County bought the distillery, located at 10919 York Road, for $453,663, according to a news release.
"In addition to razing the building, the County will regrade the property to mitigate the degradation of the Beaver Dam Run, a tributary that flows into the Loch Raven Reservoir which provides drinking water for Baltimore City and County," the release states.
Demolishing the distillery is just the first part of a plan, funded by a $4 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, to address "significant flooding" that has "repeatedly damaged several Cockeysville businesses," the release states.
The grant will also pay for the county to acquire and demolish other commercial buildings and help business owners relocate outside the Cockeysville floodplain, the release states. Any space the county buys is to be "preserved in perpetuity as passive open space, recreational or wetland areas."
"This is a positive example of how we can resolve a persistent problem through collaboration between County officials, local business owners and our state and federal emergency management agencies," said County Executive Kevin Kamenetz.
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