More elite accommodations coming to Manhattan soon!

[mocat]

  

[ednksu]

they put up a fence around all the houses and apartments yesterday.  demo coming soon 

Yesterday....more like last week.

But seriously, those places are shitholes and need to be destroyed.

[eastcat]

Trees have been removed. Waiting for houses to be demo'd.

Do we know what this thing is for sure going to look like yet?

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Trees have been removed. Waiting for houses to be demo'd.

Do we know what this thing is for sure going to look like yet?

[8manpick]

Trees have been removed. Waiting for houses to be demo'd.

Do we know what this thing is for sure going to look like yet?

Cinder block façade

[Skipper44]

Trees have been removed. Waiting for houses to be demo'd.

Do we know what this thing is for sure going to look like yet?

Cinder block façade

ha

[wabash909]

Sounds like demolition of the houses is starting.

[wabash909]

Demolition begins on a house at the corner of Bluemont Avenue and Manhattan Avenue Thursday morning. The area is being cleared because the corner is the future site of a new hotel.

[wabash909]

New website complete with demolition videos.   

http://bluemonthotel.com/

[mocat]

whoa what's all that stuff on the right?

[steve dave]

did I make their website for them? seems like maybe I did.

[wabash909]

whoa what's all that stuff on the right?

Assume you are talking about the planters.  And yes, they will most likely be a complete pedestrian circulation nightmare.

[Pete]

Demolition begins on a house at the corner of Bluemont Avenue and Manhattan Avenue Thursday morning. The area is being cleared because the corner is the future site of a new hotel.

That bulldozer thing in that picture is tearing off a room that has more than one bullet hole in the floor/wall of the closet.  Limestone and I had pledge brother who procured a handgun his jr/sr year and was too enthusiastic about it.

[mocat]

whoa what's all that stuff on the right?

Assume you are talking about the planters.  And yes, they will most likely be a complete pedestrian circulation nightmare.

HUR HUR HUR no i mean the buildings next to the hotel. they are going to have to demo more than 1 or 2 houses to fit all that stuff.

[ChiComCat]

did I make their website for them? seems like maybe I did.

I picture it being ran by the average idiot bar owner in Aggieville.  I hope this won't be the case.

[puniraptor]

whoa what's all that stuff on the right?

Assume you are talking about the planters.  And yes, they will most likely be a complete pedestrian circulation nightmare.

HUR HUR HUR no i mean the buildings next to the hotel. they are going to have to demo more than 1 or 2 houses to fit all that stuff.

that red brick apartment complex is coming down too

[mocat]

whoa what's all that stuff on the right?

Assume you are talking about the planters.  And yes, they will most likely be a complete pedestrian circulation nightmare.

HUR HUR HUR no i mean the buildings next to the hotel. they are going to have to demo more than 1 or 2 houses to fit all that stuff.

that red brick apartment complex is coming down too

that red brick apartment complex is where i used to walk through from vattier to aggieville. sentimental value

[mocat]

demo videos:

[puniraptor]

demo videos:

  the high speed sounds make that hilarious

[puniraptor]

I like how they didn't even try to put the fence back up that blew over.

[wabash909]

Is this thing done yet?  Need a townie status report.

[Dr Rick Daris]

Is this thing done yet?  Need a townie status report.

they've dug up a bunch of ground for the underground parking garage. that's it.

[Tobias]

Is this thing done yet?  Need a townie status report.

drove by it on saturday, the houses are demoed, bunch of earth was excavated and it looked like there were some steel beams in a vertical perimeter but i dont know if they were even tied to footings or anything (not familiar with big commercial construction at all, obviously).  didnt see any sort of concrete work done or anything.  basically a gigantic hole in the ground from what I could tell?

[star seed 7]

That's just shoring so that the bank doesnt cave in while they are working, nothing structural.   Normally with a hole this size, you slope the bank back a good 15+ feet, but they don't have room for it.

They were digging footings last week though, so walls should be coming soon.

[Tobias]

thanks seven.  looked pretty makeshift to me and that explains it