{"id":804653,"date":"2020-02-26T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379598"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T01:30:00","slug":"frisco-axes-plans-to-demolish-town-hall-clock-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/frisco-axes-plans-to-demolish-town-hall-clock-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco axes plans to demolish Town Hall clock tower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frisco decided Tuesday evening against demolishing the clock tower outside of Town Hall. <\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 Despite calls from council members to tear down the Frisco Town Hall clock tower on Main Street, budget concerns will allow the little-loved structure to remain in place, for now.<\/p>\n

Frisco officials quashed plans to demolish the clock tower during a relatively uneventful Town Council meeting Tuesday night, deciding not to move forward with the project due to apprehension surrounding the price tag and whether the structure could become useful sometime in the future as the town works to complete its 2020 Main Street Vision plan.<\/p>\n

The issue arose most recently during a work session discussion on the relocation of the Excelsior House<\/a> on Dec. 10, when the lawn adjacent to the tower was pitched as one of the potential landing spots for the historic house. Council members didn\u2019t hold back when sharing their thoughts on the clock tower, with Dan Fallon voicing that it \u201chas to disappear,\u201d and Deborah Shaner jokingly calling for council members to take matters into their own hands and dismantle it with sledgehammers.<\/p>\n

Though, tunes changed quickly during Tuesday\u2019s meeting. Public Works Director Jeff Goble said the town received two bids for the demolition contract, including the recommended bid from Tasman Geosciences out of Colorado Springs, which said it could dismantle the tower for just under $40,000.<\/p>\n

The high costs of the proposal, and knowing that new planning efforts are about to kick off for the area, was enough to curb some of the council\u2019s distaste for the structure. It was Fallon and Shaner who ended up pushing back hardest against the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was one of the people who helped to initiate this review,\u201d Fallon said. \u201c(The tower) vexes me, but I don\u2019t know if it $40,000-vexes me. It might make more sense if and when a more compelling use of that space becomes obvious. So I appreciate getting the bids, but I\u2019m not on board to spend $40,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of a Main Street master plan, and I just don\u2019t understand why we\u2019d be ripping stuff down out of budget when we may end up doing a lot of different things to this intersection,\u201d Shaner added. \u201cWhy are we paying money for this just because somebody hates the clock tower? I think we should keep it up and address it in the master plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the idea of knocking down the clock tower has made its way in front of town councilors. Goble said this was the third time in his memory that town staff has been asked to push out requests for proposals for its demolition. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt has come up for discussion over the years,\u201d said Vanessa Agee, Frisco\u2019s marketing and communication\u2019s director. \u201cI think this was the right strategy to take on, to move this into the Main Street visioning process we\u2019re going to do anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

What happens then is up in the air. And some still might want to see the tower removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the record, I\u2019d take it down,\u201d council member Jessica Burley said.<\/p>\n

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Frisco decided Tuesday evening against demolishing the clock tower outside of Town Hall. Sawyer D\u2019Argonne \/ sdargonne@summitdaily.com FRISCO \u2014 Despite calls from council members to tear down the Frisco Town Hall clock tower on Main Street, budget concerns will allow the little-loved structure to remain in place, for now. Frisco officials quashed plans to demolish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:18:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}