After nearly five months of inactivity, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is close to restarting the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building, where work halted in August after two firefighters died fighting a blaze in the contaminated tower.

A long-simmering dispute between the redevelopment corporation and its construction manager, Bovis Lend Lease, has been resolved, less than two weeks after the development corporation threatened to fire Bovis, according to government officials.

As part of the resolution, the development corporation announced on Tuesday that it had approved the hiring of a new subcontractor, LVI Services Inc., to strip the building at 130 Liberty Street of asbestos and other hazardous substances and then demolish the remaining structure.

LVI will replace the John Galt Corporation, the subcontractor that was removed after evidence indicated that smoking by its workers may have caused the fire.

Since the fire, the demolition project has become the subject of a wide-ranging criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney