With growing ire over delays to demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, the project’s developer is pushing back against comments by the city’s fire chief that the developer is intentionally delaying demolition of the building.
Three months after a partial collapse killed three construction workers and injured dozens, the Hard Rock Hotel still sits largely as it did in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 12 collapse. The battered remains of two successfully demolished tower cranes still litter the site, and the bodies of two construction workers, killed in the building collapse, remain unrecovered in the rubble.