NEW ORLEANS -- The partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel at the edge of the French Quarter was already the site of tragedy -- and, for several months as the authorities have been unable to enter the dangerously unstable building, it has been an eyesore.Then this week, it transformed into something more
NEW ORLEANS — The partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel at the edge of the French Quarter was already the site of tragedy — and, for several months as the authorities have been unable to enter the dangerously unstable building, it has been an eyesore.
He said that they were using heavier ropes than before and that several tarps were torn and ripped in the process. Routes previously used by workers, he said, were found to be inaccessible because of debris. Story continuesWhen the body was visible to passersby Wednesday, a crowd gathered on North Rampart Street to look at it. The mood was somber. “How do you have a celebratory spirit at Mardi Gras?” asked Tracy Riley, 48. “How can you second-line past this corner knowing that this is waving over our city?”“Sure, it’s complicated, but it’s doable,” she said. “It makes me believe that leaving him there was based on profit-loss equations, not on what’s best for humanity.
Several lawsuits have since been filed against the developers. One, filed on behalf of people who say they were injured in the collapse, claims that the developers were negligent and that they failed, among other things, to design the building “in a manner that could bear the loads the structure was intended to hold.”
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