If you owned a funeral home with a few Cadillac hearses in your fleet, you would be pretty mad if a nearby construction site created debris that damaged those funeral cars.
That’s exactly what has happened at this North Carolina funeral home. In addition to damaging the hearses, Judie Rice and her 85-year-old coworker do not feel safe going to work at the Knotts Funeral Service on Graham Street because of the constantly falling debris from the construction of the Greenbridge condominiums.
The condo complex is going to be a 10-story multi-use facility once it is completed. However, workers at local businesses like the Knotts Funeral Service have complained that the construction has disturbed services in recent weeks because it rattles the walls as well as the nerves of the people at the chapel.
“It’s almost impossible for us to do what we do,” explained Lula Knotts, Thomas, the owner of the funeral service. But builders with the Greenbridge condominium towers say they have tried to make accommodations to make up for their mess and inconvenience.
“We have bent over backwards to accommodate Knotts from the outset,” said developer Tim Toben. The developers gave the funeral service owners $50,000 as well as replacing the air conditioning system because it became clogged with debris from the construction. Once the facility is complete, developers will also evaluate any structural damage and pay for repairs.
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