NJPAC finally revealed the reason it intends to break a 32-year promise and demolish the Cathedral House — asbestos.
This was the testimony of a remediation expert that NJPAC had hired and brought to the last meeting of the city’s Landmarks Commission, which reviews applications for demolition of designated landmarks.
Mark Constantino, manager at Whitman, the company that authored the asbestos report, said his firm was initially hired in 2022 to conduct an asbestos inspection, but because the building was occupied at the time, it was limited in its investigation…