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Hard Rock developers ask to knock down 3 more buildings around collapsed hotel
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:12 am
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:12 am
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Never let a tragedy go to waste, especially if it means making a buck.
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Developers are requesting a permit to remove three buildings surrounding the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel site.
According to The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, the plan would involve tearing down three historic buildings, two on Canal Street and one on Iberville Street, in order to completely demolish the partially collapsed hotel.
Engineers and city leaders decided against contractors' original plans to implode the site because of concerns over damaging nearby buildings.
“It’s been a tragedy,” Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates Executive Director Erin Holmes told NOLA.com. “But we don’t need to continue removing the historic fabric of Canal Street. VCPORA is going to be opposed to any further demolition around the site unless a clear need is demonstrated for their removal.”
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NOLA.com reports that requests for permits to demolish the buildings at 1019 Canal Street, 1027 Canal Street and 1022 Iberville were filed earlier this month with the city.
The Canal Street properties are owned, through other companies, by Mohan Kailas, the majority stakeholder in the Hard Rock project. The Iberville property is owned by Todd Trosclair, a minority partner in the project, according to NOLA.com.
There's concern the developers will benefit from knocking down the buildings, since it would leave vacant space to be sold or redeveloped to pay for the piling costs of the collapse, NOLA.com reports.
Never let a tragedy go to waste, especially if it means making a buck.
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Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:24 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
They need to call George W.
He knows all about knocking down buildings
He knows all about knocking down buildings
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:25 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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There's concern the developers will benefit from knocking down the buildings, since it would leave vacant space to be sold or redeveloped
There’s no question those frickers would benefit from tearing those other buildings down. If it’s deemed necessary then they should have to give up those properties.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:25 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I would also like to knock down buildings in that area. Where do I apply?
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:26 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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There's concern the developers will benefit from knocking down the buildings, since it would leave vacant space to be sold or redeveloped to pay for the piling costs of the collapse, NOLA.com reports.
This is activist journalism. I recognize the signs.
The chance that Hard Rock’s motive in tearing down more buildings is to boldly capitalize on this tragedy is pretty low.
The likelihood that it’s SJW squawking about evil corporate motives under every piece of rubble is much more likely.
The unattributed “there’s concern...” is the tell.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:26 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Something stinks about this whole deal.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:29 am to tgrbaitn08
Yeah, Kalias has the loooong con in. He purposefully fricked up the construction, spent millions and is on the hook for more millions than any of those properties are worth.
Stupid like a FOX!!!
Stupid like a FOX!!!
This post was edited on 12/22/19 at 10:30 am
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:36 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I’m pretty sure people were against the original construction of the hard rock because it called for tearing down historical buildings. Well look where we are now
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:37 am to fightin tigers
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Hard Rock developers ask to knock down 3 more buildings around collapsed hotel by fightin tigers
Yeah, Kalias has the loooong con in. He purposefully fricked up the construction, spent millions and is on the hook for more millions than any of those properties are worth
Yea the only thing I would think is they figure to knock those other down in the process and rebuild a bigger HARD rock or whatever in the future and have more vacant space to use.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:39 am to TigerDat
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they figure to knock those other down in the process and rebuild a bigger HARD rock or whatever in the future and have more vacant space to use.
Ding ding ding
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:40 am to Ed Osteen
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I’m pretty sure people were against the original construction of the hard rock because it called for tearing down historical buildings. Well look where we are now
It was an empty lot. People were against the height. By people I mean the hysterical society.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:41 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Any chance the Superdome is one of them?
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:43 am to fightin tigers
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It was an empty lot. People were against the height. By people I mean the hysterical society.
Just make it a parking garage then Latoya can take credit for more progress
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:45 am to tgrbaitn08
Id be fine if the city got control of that lot, and the adjoining ones, and turned it into a transit center.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 10:59 am to fightin tigers
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It was an empty lot. People were against the height. By people I mean the hysterical society.
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The Hard Rock project long ago drew the ire of historic preservationists because it required the demolition of a former Woolworth’s store that was the site of lunch counter sit-ins during the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 11:10 am to Ed Osteen
Maybe so. I just remember the building was basically falling down already and was almost unsalvageable. Seemed all the ire was the height and Kalais.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 11:11 am to Ed Osteen
Who owns the land and the buildings that the hard rock wants to tear down ?
Posted on 12/22/19 at 11:14 am to shaqtaw
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The Canal Street properties are owned, through other companies, by Mohan Kailas, the majority stakeholder in the Hard Rock project. The Iberville property is owned by Todd Trosclair, a minority partner in the project, according to NOLA.com.
Posted on 12/22/19 at 11:21 am to fightin tigers
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Maybe so. I just remember the building was basically falling down already and was almost unsalvageable. Seemed all the ire was the height and Kalais.
They managed to replace it with one that actually did fall down. Off subject but why can't the city do something with the State Palace Theater?
Posted on 12/22/19 at 11:22 am to Jimbeaux
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The chance that Hard Rock’s motive in tearing down more buildings is to boldly capitalize on this tragedy is pretty low.
The development LLC is a trio of property developers and contractors, not the Hard Rock. If you don’t think they’re itching to use this to make other properties more development/leasing friendly then you’re being naive
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