Smokestack at former dairy processing plant demolished

The demolition will make way for a charter school in York, Pennsylvania.

A smokestack at a former dairy processing plant in York, Pennsylvania, is scheduled for demolition Aug. 16, a report by the York Dispatch says. The processing plant will be replaced by a new charter school.

The demolition is expected to take five days and will be done by Wagman Inc., York. Dennis Baughman, CEO of York Academy Regional Charter School, says the demolition will not be a controlled implosion and road closures are not expected over the course of the demolition.

Crews tore down the process plant and neighboring karate students in July to make space for the York Academy Regional Charter School.

The new school is 65,000 square feet and will house students from kindergarten through high school graduation by 2022. The new school should be open to eighth grade students for the 2018-2019 school year. The facility will expand by one grade per year.

There will be five “academic houses” for the five grade levels in the school and a makerspace, a gymnasium, a move theater and art rooms, the report says.