After delays that threatened to push the project into 2021, the City of New Orleans announced on Jan. 17 that the partially collapsed structure of the unfinished, 18-story Hard Rock Hotel will be brought down in a controlled demolition in late March, under a new plan to be submitted by demolition contractor D.H. Griffin Cos.
Three construction workers were killed and dozens were injured when the upper floors of the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel collapsed on Oct. 12, 2019. The partial structural failure pancaked portions of the upper floors, sending debris into the street below and damaging two adjacent tower cranes.