When Tamaqua Borough Council solicited bids to demolish 423 Willing St. in April, it got none.

Council rebid the project, and received one that it approved this week from Northeast Industrial Services of Shamokin.

The firm bid $63,327 to remove the attached row home.

Borough Manager Kevin Steigerwalt explained that the project will require crews to work by hand at some points to remove the structure. Adjoining properties will need rehabilitation.

The borough has about $30,000 in demolition funds to use for the project, and can take money from its reserves to finish the work until additional demolition moneys become available.

Steigerwalt noted that ongoing demolition projects at 130 Clay St., 300-302 Race St., and 161 Penn St. should be complete by the end of this month.

In his report to council, he added that work on the Reading & Northern Railroad crossing on West Broad Street was finished last week. The railroad thanked the borough for its assistance in paving the crossing, he said.

Councilman Ron Bowman said that railroad crews also patched “a little bit” on the Spruce Street crossing. Steigerwalt said the railroad hopes to finish that crossing before school resumes in late August.

In an unrelated matter, resident George Haldeman asked when the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation would begin repaving portions of Route 209 and 309 in the borough.

Steigerwalt said it should start around the Independence Day holiday. He said PennDOT plans to begin paving Route 209 in Coaldale, and head west toward Tamaqua.

PennDOT hopes to have the project complete by late August.