After the price-setting meetings, officials chose to award a massive, non-competitive deal — known as the unit-price contract — in June 2014 to Adamo and Homrich, despite indications in e ...

It’s not unusual, he said, to see a house with abatement costs that exceed the price tag of demolition. For example, demolition could run $6,000-8,000, with another $10,000 tackled on for abatement.

—or $7,500 per building. Dorich’s estimate appears to have been low—and so is the $180 million figure. In the GAO report itself, city officials estimate each building would cost between ...