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The city of Erie's Marsh Street facility is deteriorating and portions of its main building are unsafe for employees.

Erie City Council approved $20.5 million in bond financing for a new public safety/public works complex project.

The former Miller Bros. property at 21st and State streets will be renovated in phases to house the new complex.

Inside the main work area of the city of Erie’s Marsh Street facility one recent afternoon, Al Bucheral pointed downward at the deep fractures and quickly-patched holes visible in the concrete floor.

It’s a space within the 24,000-square-foot building where fire bureau mechanics repair aerial ladder trucks and other vehicles that can weigh up to 70,000 pounds.

Beneath that work space, the building's basement ceiling is bucklin

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