Lackawanna getting ready to say goodbye to “City Hall on Stilts”

LACKAWANNA, N.Y> (WBEN)……..As Lackawanna officials prep to officially showcase its new city hall, a development plan is in the works for its former municipal building.

Since it opened in 1909, the two-story brick building at 715 Ridge Road has housed Lackawanna’s city offices, police headquarters and courts.

In 1968, Lackawanna added a two-story, orange addition facing Ridge Road and sits on a series of stilts. The orange building won few compliments and, architecturally, been derided from the beginning…

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