Plans for the City of Vicksburg workers to clear debris from the old Thomas Furniture Store site at 713 Clay St. have been delayed.

The Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday gave property owners Preston and Mary Reuther a 30-day extension to cut grass and weeds and remove debris from the site and the sidewalk. The site has been littered with construction debris, including bricks and glass, since the building collapsed on Jan. 25, 2006.

It has been at the center of continuing legal fights since.

Mayor Paul Winfield said a mediation hearing between the parties in a lawsuit involving the property was scheduled for Aug. 4 at an attorney’s office in Vicksburg. He said the extension would give all sides time to try to reach a solution to the dispute.

Lisa Ashcraft, who owns the building on Washington Street adjacent to the site, is suing the Reuthers, the contractor they hired to finish demolishing the building and the city.

She claims Antique Wood and Brick Company of Mississippi, the Reuthers’ contractor, damaged a wall that her building shared with the furniture store.