PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — “The walls are coming down.”
Those five words were among the first of Mayor Shannon Glover’s State of the City address Friday. While they could be used to metaphorically describe several initiatives the city is working on, he was specifically referring to the physical walls of the city’s former Civic Center.
Friday, two gaping holes could be seen in the former police headquarters building that sits on the corner of Crawford and Columbia streets. Crews from New York-based Total Wrecking & Environmental were awarded the nearly $7.7 million bid to demo the 12-acre site that also once was home to the city jail and judicial buildings…