Good news, the lane is closed off on Grand Ave in front of the parking garage, construction equipment is on site including a small mobile crane. Half of the front facade of the parking garage is already removed!
The entire Grand Ave. facade is off when I walked by tonight. Nice to see they're on a good pace...maybe while they have the lane shut down and the equipment in place they'll start tearing down the two old buildings!
Today at lunch I noticed they are back working on the parking garage. The facade has been off completely since the last posts, but today they had the small "cranes" set-up and looked to be sand blasting or something, and maybe doing structural work...just glad to see they are working at a good pace on this, but again, hopefully the work on the actual tower site begins.
According to this June 09 article demolition of the City Club "has just begun." The project is still slated to be completed in 2010 which I find surprising, not sure how likely that is. I'll check soon to confirm that demolition of the City Club has actually started.
I was by there and I didn't see any demolition. There were some windows open on the second floor that I think were closed before. The only thing I can guess is that they are prepping for demolition or doing some sort of abatement.
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