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John A. jr.;7649 said:
We should be starting the project by the third week of this month. No blasting on this one. There are 70 concrete buildings to wreck, nothing over three stories. We imploded the only high rise public housing building a few years ago. It was in the Fischer Housing Development on the West Bank. We will put 5 of our PC400's on the site, the project has an aggressive schedule barring any public demonstrations or civil unrest.
Beast of luck John, I know you guys will do a good job.
As for the protesters, they don't ever stop to think that these buildings were never designed to be permanent public housing. They had about a thirty year life span when they were built in the forties and fifties and it is just time for new structures regardless of the hurricane damage.
We should be starting the project by the third week of this month. No blasting on this one. There are 70 concrete buildings to wreck, nothing over three stories. We imploded the only high rise public housing building a few years ago. It was in the Fischer Housing Development on the West Bank. We will put 5 of our PC400's on the site, the project has an aggressive schedule barring any public demonstrations or civil unrest.
9:58 AM
Congratulations, John. When do you start the job? Is it going to be implosing. I agree with you that this is much better for the people to get rid of these bad old housing projects. They harbor a lot of crime. Out with the old . . .
I agree with you John, it's gonna get worse before it gets better. I just wish people would realize that doing this is going to make the better.
Ok John I want Pic's,Equipment List, post it all lololololol, just ask this lot they know my hunger for Heavy Demolition Machinery and Photos lolol.....
We were just awarded the first of the big four, Lafitte. I was thrilled to see whats going on with the protests. I don't understand some people. The housing project is a disaster, falling apart and was built in the forties, or fifties. We did a high rise project a few years ago on the Westbank at Fisher Housing. The housing that replaced that high rise were 100 % better than what was there. I just hope that the protests will be over by the time we mobilize. Politics at it's worst. My own personal opinion is that New Orleans is going to get worse before it gets better. It's a shame because it really is a great city with alot of good people.
11:04 AM
The tree huggers think this is part of a plan to kick the poor people out of New Orleans.
Four public housing developments in New Orleans will be torn down beginning Dec. 15 an official said Thursday after the local housing authority approved $30 million in demolition contracts.
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development announced 2006 that it would demolish the city's four largest developments, St. Bernard, Lafitte, C.J. Peete and B.W. Cooper to make way for "mixed income" neighborhoods.
But the plan has drawn strong protest and a federal lawsuit in a city where affordable housing remains hard to come by more than two years after Hurricane Katrina. Opponents of the demolitions say it would be better to repair and renovate existing buildings.
A group called Stop the Demolition Coalition posted on the Internet a call for protesters to come to New Orleans Dec. 10 "to join with the residents of New Orleans and all those who believe in the human right to housing to resist demolition."
"If court actions do not bring relief it's up to the people to enforce the human right of housing," said Bill Quigley, an assistant dean of the Loyola Law School who is representing former residents in efforts to save the projects. "There are a full range of First Amendment rights such as sit-ins and demonstrations available and people will do whatever it takes to stop the demolition of their homes."
A federal judge earlier this month refused to stop demolition of the housing projects while a suit calling for their renovation makes its way through court.
That decision is now at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Quigley said.
People evacuated from the complexes following Hurricane Katrina sued HANO and HUD after the agencies announced they would demolish the complexes.
HUD contends that the residents are just trying to delay improvements to public housing. Plans for replacing the brick buildings, some of which were built in the 1930s, were in the works before Katrina hit just over two years ago, HUD says, and the storm's devastation only accelerated the process.
"Plaintiffs have no legal right to return to the particular public housing units they occupied on Aug. 29, 2005, because they have no property interest in those particular units," wrote attorney Lesley Farby on behalf of HUD in a recent court motion.
The lawsuit contends that the city will drastically reduce the number of subsidized apartments for poor families, essentially preventing their return. New Orleans had 7,641 units of public housing before Katrina, about 5,100 of them occupied.
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