The city of New Orleans appears to be getting fed up with delays in the tearing down the wrecked construction site of the Hard Rock Hotel. City officials say the developer, 1031 Canal Development LLC, has now come up with a fifth plan for demolition, and while the city is expediting review of it, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Ramsey Green says this is growing tiresome.
"The city doesn't care: it needs to be down, down quickly, down safely, the bodies recovered, and it needs to be paid for by the developer," he said this afternoon.
The construction site partially collapsed more than six months ago, on October 12, killing three workers. The remains of two of them are still trapped inside the wreckage that still looms over Canal and North Rampart streets.
The city says if this most recent demolition plan is unable to proceed for any reason, it is prepared to take appropriate action to deal with it as a public hazard.