Just when you thought it was safe to whisper the name Executive Inn…
By the time the multiple fires had been put out, the TV crews had put away their cameras, the local landfill was filled to bursting point and most (if not all) of the Executive Inn hotel in Owensboro was leveled, I had grown weary of following the twists and turns of this long running saga. In fact, it had got so bad that each time I typed the letters Ex in succession, my fingers added the letters e.c.u.t.i.v.e on auto-pilot.
So imagine our horror when we heard that the Big E had a sister building that was also to be demolished “within weeks”. Surely, we thought, it can’t be as bad this time…can it?
Certainly, the fact that part of the Executive Inn in Evansville is to be retained rules out failed implosions; and maybe, just maybe, some lessons will have been learned from the demolition of the Owensboro hotel.
But reading initial reports from the Evansville Courier & Press, there are some parts that have an all too familiar a ring to them: …the building is expected to be razed “within weeks”; the method of demolition isn’t yet certain.
We will be watching with battle-hardened interest.
