Movie shoot leads to long, slow death of Lafayette building.
Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority voted last June 25 to demolish the vacant office building. Seven months later, the building was still only half down this week, with a lot more work to go.
Waymon Guillebeaux, vice president of project management for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., which oversees the demolition, said two major delays cropped up since the DDA’s vote.
First, nearby filming of the movie “Red Dawn” stopped demolition work, and then a sinkhole on nearby Shelby necessitated a water main replacement that also stopped demolition work.
Rick Cuppetilli, project manager for Adamo Demolition, said his crews lost 14 working days to the movie shoot and 45 working days to the water main replacement, or more than two months in all.
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