I know there are exceptions, but my experience has been that most developers are scumbags.
Willing to bet this one got the place cheap exactly because it had the historical baggage attached to it, and then was hoping to get by asking forgiveness instead of permission and then make a bunch of money reselling the land after the building was gone.
What were they trying to hide? The city worker asked if they had a permit, they said yes, the worker said no you don't, so they stopped and left in a truck and that's that. No way, they're 100% hiding something. That excavator is not even the right piece of equipment for that job, either. If you look at, it's an old rusted Hitachi EX 2000 excavator that's not built for tearing down a building like that. It's almost like they were going to do what they could and then abandon the excavator.
I wonder what the current interest in this building has been? I recently heard another story about a historical structure that is vacant school building. A Charter School wanted to buy an repurpose....but as soon as the city found they were interested...they started making plans to demolish it. The NEA does NOT like competition. I hope and pray that dismantling the NEA is in DJT's top ten list.
Yea, seems very odd to me as well! That Hitachi looks like junk to me, no legitimate contractor is going to leave an expensive piece of equipment there.....also notice there is no safety fencing around the site, etc. Very odd.
You can bet if work started (without any permits being let) early on a Sunday morning, then something nefarious is afoot. Salt Lake City needs to investigate this affair.
I know there are exceptions, but my experience has been that most developers are scumbags.
Willing to bet this one got the place cheap exactly because it had the historical baggage attached to it, and then was hoping to get by asking forgiveness instead of permission and then make a bunch of money reselling the land after the building was gone.
What were they trying to hide? The city worker asked if they had a permit, they said yes, the worker said no you don't, so they stopped and left in a truck and that's that. No way, they're 100% hiding something. That excavator is not even the right piece of equipment for that job, either. If you look at, it's an old rusted Hitachi EX 2000 excavator that's not built for tearing down a building like that. It's almost like they were going to do what they could and then abandon the excavator.
I wonder what the current interest in this building has been? I recently heard another story about a historical structure that is vacant school building. A Charter School wanted to buy an repurpose....but as soon as the city found they were interested...they started making plans to demolish it. The NEA does NOT like competition. I hope and pray that dismantling the NEA is in DJT's top ten list.
Yea, seems very odd to me as well! That Hitachi looks like junk to me, no legitimate contractor is going to leave an expensive piece of equipment there.....also notice there is no safety fencing around the site, etc. Very odd.
The equipment is junk and I've never seen a legit demo contractor use rusting crap like that. The no fencing is a good catch!
Vert strange...and quite, quite stupid.
You can bet if work started (without any permits being let) early on a Sunday morning, then something nefarious is afoot. Salt Lake City needs to investigate this affair.