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TROY - The city received 13 bids Tuesday to knock down an old industrial building in South Troy that was to have housed a $15 million environmental center to study the Hudson River.

The Scolite site building is be knocked down to clear the site for potential industrial use. The study center idea faltered years ago.

The low bid of $159,900 was submitted by Bronze Contracting.

It was one of four bids lower than the $226,733 grant the city has from National Grid to pay for demolition. The other three bids below the amount were made by Dan's Hauling and Demolition at $189,000; NRC Environmental, $198,400; and Ritter and Paratore, $206,000.

The project will include removal of asbestos. "The abatement of the asbestos is kind of tricky," said Andrew Kreshik, the city's project manager for the Scolite site.

The 5.74-acre site between the Poesten Kill on the north and Madison Avenue on the south was to have been the location of the $15 million Upper Hudson Research Center of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries. That plan fell apart when fundraising didn't come together.

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