SALISBURY — The pink granite service station that has been at East Innes and South Lee streets since the 1930s has been disassembled and removed.

The Salisbury City Council voted Nov. 21 to approve a demolition permit for the building, which has been vacant for about 10 years.

The petition to demolish the building was submitted by architect Pete Bogle and his client, Healthcare Management Consultants, to the Historic Preservation Commission in September 2016.

Healthcare Management Consultants wanted to move its business from the current location on Statesville Boulevard to the granite station property.

The Historic Preservation Commission voted to delay the demolition of the station for a year, the maximum amount of time allowed, to allow stakeholders to consider preservation options.

At the City Council’s Nov. 21 meeting, Bogle said there were four questions that the Historic Salisbury Foundation wanted him and his client to consider, all of which were some form of whether the station could be preserved.

In the end, Bogle said, it made more sense to demolish the service station and repurpose the corner property.

Historic Salisbury Foundation Executive Director Karen Hobson said at the meeting that, ideally, she would have liked for the service station to be restored in its original location.

“But none of us live in an ideal world,” Hobson said.

Bogle has agreed to use the pink granite from the station on a new building that will be at 219 E. Innes St.

The new structure will accompany an 11,600-square-foot, two-story building to be built on the property. Healthcare Management Consultants’ new offices will likely be on the first floor and apartments will likely be on the second floor.

Bogle said tenants for what will be the new pink granite building have not been determined. The building will be 2,500 square feet and a restaurant or food service business will likely go there, he said.

The timeline for construction is not yet final.

Contact reporter Jessica Coates at 704-797-4222.