New company appointed to clean-up round building rubble.
When the demolition company you chose shoots up the site with an automatic weapon and then abandons the semi-completed works altogether, you too would probably want a little peace of mind when selecting a suitable replacement.
Well, that is quite literally what has happened in Orlando, Florida where the now infamous round building still partially stands as a lasting testament to the fact that cheapest is not always best.
A new company has been selected to clean up the mess left by Crusader Demolition, which walked off the job in March.
Crusader Demolition pledged to complete the job in a few weeks but eventually admitted it didn’t have the funding to finish the work.
The original deal required that the awarded company have experience demolishing at least a three-story building. Another company warned the city that Crusader hadn’t done it before, but the city gave it the bid anyway.
Despite the ordeal with Crusader, Commissioner Regina Hill defended the process.
“The lowest bidder won; we thought they were capable. (We) never would have chosen them if we didn’t think that, and in hindsight, I think we would have done it the same way,” Hill said.
The city is finalizing a contract with the new company, Pece of Mind Environmental. It says it can clean up the mess and finish landscaping by the end of August.
