Before you know it six and a half years will have gone by since the tragedy of 9/11. While the foundations are being poured for the new towers on the site, the crippled Deutsche Bank building still stands, at least twenty-six stories of it anyways. It is a toxic mess that proved its danger in the fire last August that killed two firefighters. Soon after the fire the LMDC fired the subcontractor doing the demolition. Now the famed Las Vegas imploder LVI Environmental Services will be stepping up.
From The Daily News:
LVI is joining the on-again, off-again effort to raze the building - originally 40 stories and deconstructed to the 26th floor at the time of the fire - as a subcontractor to Bovis Lend Lease, which has overall charge of the project. The bank building was damaged by the 9/11 terror attacks and then left exposed to the elements.
"Bovis is pleased that the deconstruction will recommence shortly in a time and manner that is responsible and safe," Bovis spokeswoman Mary Costello said.
LVI is best known for the spectacular implosions of such outmoded Las Vegas Strip stalwarts as the Sands, Aladdin, Castaways, El Rancho and Desert Inn. In March last year, it leveled the 32-story Stardust Casino.
Of course they will not be imploding the building, Lower Manhattan is a bit more dense than the towers that are laid far apart from each other on the Las Vegas strip. I think we have had enough of that type of stuff in the area to last many, many lifetimes.
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