The
Simm's brush factory in announced back in the summer it would be closing
down its Saint John operations and laying off 35 employees--and now JDI
has confirmed the iconic glass building itself will be demolished in the
new year.
Mary
Keith of JDI explains demolition has already begun on the wooden
building that is behind the iconic glass-fronted factory on Simm's
Corner--and by the new year, the factory itself will be levelled and the
site used for heavy industrial purposes.
Keith
says they're looking at all the options when it comes to traffic calming
on Simm's Corner, but the solution won't necessarily involve a
divestiture of any of that land.
Simms has been a family business since it was founded in 1866.
The glass building was built in 1912.