A legal row between Lancaster County and one of its tenants at the former Armstrong building was resolved Tuesday, clearing the way for renovations there to resume next week, the county solicitor said.

Smith Barney and the county commissioners reached a tentative agreement to be signed today by all the parties and sent to federal court in Philadelphia, county solicitor Don Lefever said Tuesday.

Part of the agreement requires the county to pay for Smith Barney to move out of the building at 150 N. Queen St., where the county already is spending $26 million to make more space for county offices, according to Lefever.

Officials from Smith Barney did not return phone calls to their office Tuesday.

A federal judge Thursday stopped construction after Smith Barney, a financial consultant with 33 employees in the building, requested a temporary restraining order.

Smith Barney, which leases first-floor office space from the county, made the request one day after construction work prompted a carbon monoxide leak that sent one Smith Barney employee to the hospital and caused a buildingwide evacuation.

The county, which seized the building in 2004 by eminent domain, began its renovation project in January.

The project has stumbled a number of times since then. A string of incidents from skin rashes and dust allergies afflicting employees inside the building to last week's carbon monoxide outbreak have hampered renovation efforts.

Smith Barney appealed Thursday to the U.S. Eastern District Court in Philadelphia, hoping to stop construction until Smith Barney could break its lease with the county, which was to run until September.

LeFever said the agreement between Smith Barney and the county calls for:

•Relocation of Smith Barney by June 15.

•All of Smith Barney's moving expenses to be paid for by the county

•A safety monitor for Smith Barney, paid for by county.

•An independent safety monitor hired by the county to watch construction on behalf of the other businesses leasing space in the building.

•Construction work to occur only between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

LeFever said construction will resume Monday after the county resolves safety issues raised by the Lancaster Bureau of Fire earlier this month.

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