Former Easton Hubcap Store to be Demolished? Say It Ain’t So!

Awwww, we’ve talked about Hubcap John in the past, in this .. hmm… badly formatted article, when Easton was all up in his hubcap shit.

If you’re not aware, on the side of 22, right before you are heading into or out of New “fistpump” Jersey there is the three story (?) former hubcap building replete with any sort of value other than garbage and .. well… hubcaps.

So, Easton, being the progressive city that it is, wants to demolish it make way for … crack houses or something, whatever downtown thrives on.

Oh, Lafayette bought it, I forgot, so it’s going to be a place for rich New Jersey kids to have sex. Great.

Come Monday, the former Hubcap and Wheel Store off Route 22’s Fourth Street exit in Easton will be no more. Crews are scheduled to demolish the structure next week.

City officials spent years pressuring the  former owner, John Sefcik, to clean up the property, which is an eyesore. Lafayette College in November finalized the property’s purchase, but not before wrangling with Sefcik over his failure to empty the structure in a timely manner.

“It’s an opportunity to make the city’s entrance look nicer; it was well worth the wait,”Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. said.

The building’s windows have been removed, the property has been lined with a temporary fence and a garbage container marked “Empire Wrecking” sits empty in preparation for the demolition.

Sefcik’s son, Shawn, meanwhile is preparing to open another hubcap store that straddles West Easton and Easton at 42 Adamson St. The 76,000-square-foot structure is so large, Shawn Sefcik said, that there will be no need to store hubcaps outside. Source

OOOOH, just what we all need, ANOTHER new and IMPROVED Hubcap store! Yes.

However, I would like to be there for this demolition. For once, explosions downtown won’t be attributed to gunfire in downtown Easton. For once.