re: WWL 870 at noon today has 1031 Canal Development explaining Hard Rock collapse

Question for all the outraged:


What is your solution to this?


The building collapsed in an historic district wherein if you implode it, you will likely cause severe damage to other buildings in the area.

If you take it down piece by piece you also risk further collapse an damage.


So I’m thinking that a little prudence in developing a plan of such sensitivity is a necessity and an over abundance of caution is warranted.


The workers killed is tragic. The worker being exposed to view is horrific and unfortunate.

But again- you can make a bad situation worse if not done as carefully as possible.

The outrage and the marching on city hall is a mob mentality and a hyper reaction by people that don’t know the nuances of what exactly goes into removing this building and the ramifications of what can happen if the plan goes wrong.


Do you people really think the Kailas family, the GC, and the city want this worker’s legs dangling over Canal St?

Don’t you think if they could safely extract the guy(s) they would send in a team to do this?

Don’t you think if simply going in and imploding the building would solve this issue they would not have done so already?


Perhaps it’s a complicated issue that needs experts from many professionals in order to figure out what exactly needs to be done.


Perhaps