South Padre Island’s “leaning tower” could fall next week.
The explosives are on the way and the Ocean Tower could come tumbling down as early as 12 December, according to reports from The Monitor.
“We’re ready for the explosion,” Mark Loizeaux of Controlled Demolitions Inc. told the South Padre Island Board of Aldermen this week. “We’ve done this all over the world with no serious accidents.”
Construction on the 31-story, 151-unit luxury project was halted last summer, a year after it was determined that the building was sinking, which caused cracks in beams and columns.
Loizeaux said his workers have drilled 3,000 holes in the structure for the placement of the explosive charges.
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