8.     REPORT, Committee on Appointments and Briefings, recommending to the City Council to grant permission for the DEMOLITION of the boiler room and smoke stack at 92 KILBURN STREET.  

8a.     COMMUNICATION/DEMOLITION, New Bedford Historical Commission, to City Council, re: 92 KILBURN STREET, Map 79, Parcel 1 “the Grinnell Manufacturing Company was established in March 1882 and the was the 4th major cotton mill in New Bedford; the company liquidated its assets in 1927 and portions of the mill were dismantled the same year; the boiler room of the Grinnell Manufacturing Company building is not longer used as originally intended and has fallen into disrepair, there is asbestos within the boiler unit and part of the roof; the smokestack is a rare survivor of New Bedford’s smokestack skyline, no longer visible today; the boiler room and smokestack are historically significant as being components of the 19th century mill complex in the City of New Bedford and the subject building is located in the Hicks-Logan-Sawyer Interim Planning Overlay District (IPOD) established by the City Council in 2008” and therefore, “the NBHC has determined that the boiler room and smokestack at 92 Kilburn Street are historically significant structures and not preferably preserved.” (Referred to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings 08/20/2015.)