Recycled house will save city around $10,000 as part of revitalization effort

Company hired to dismantle will recycle
almost everything from home

The idea is to dismantle it until there’s just about nothing left. 

Crews on the southside of La Crosse are getting close to finishing taking down a house to make way for a new home as part of the city’s neighborhood revitalization effort. 

The house, on south Ninth Street, right across from Lincoln Middle School, is getting dismantled systematically to be recycled and reused. 

Everything from the 2x4s to the insulation can be recycled and sold, according to Larry Hutson, the owner of Used Anew, a deconstruction company. 

The city will save about $10,000 by contracting with the company to recycle the building materials in the house – a long, long list that includes just about everything besides drywall, plaster, roofing shingles and the foundation. 

The lot will become the 11^th the city has for sale for a single-family home. It will also be eligible for the La Crosse Promise program, which will provide college-scholarship money for kids from families who build or renovate a house in certain challenged neighborhoods of the city.