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It's not a building collapse if it was planned
By adamg on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 9:22am
Still, the Boston Fire Department has ordered part of Border Street, across from the Shaw's, shut as a precaution after large pieces of a building being demolished at 250 Meridian St. came down all over the place around 8:50 a.m.
There was no collapse. For the past 5 weeks the building has had contractors on scene dismantling the building. No injuries.
As a precaution the Chief on scene has asked for a building inspector to check out work being done.
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Probably poorly managed
Probably poorly managed construction site, they dont want to spend the extra dollar, so the poor BFD has to keep a watchful eye on the site, another tax dollar wasted!
HA! Then it's probably being
HA! Then it's probably being managed by that scumbag Aaron Daignault.
No worries
The BFD will invoice the contractor who will pass it along to the owner in the next requisition. The contractor will certainly add on OH+P so they'll make a little $ on it.
not surprised
I go by this every day. They've slowly been dismantling it. Was kinda cool when they tore down the Meridian Street part and you could see the theatre inside.
But last few days they've been working on the upper level seating (main and balcony). The rest of the building (the front part on Meridian, stage, and border street) has been gone for a few weeks.
Honestly I'm very surprised that they didn't do a rip then demolish, which means they rip out as much as possible to be recycled then take the frame work down. Seems to me when they were demolishing the meridian street part, they didn't even bother to clean out the offices or storage areas. Just piles of stuff everywhere (lamps, books, old stage sets, seats, etc). Even today there was a desk with a lamp just hanging out there on a half demolished upper level
Kinda makes me wonder how 'safe' this job was since many big hanging pieces (concrete and steel beams) were just hanging there from the roof for weeks on end. Didn't look too safe to me. (that and the scrappers have already been in there as the fence is often pushed down overnight)
Was there a large plume of
Was there a large plume of dust cloud when the wall collapsed, if so, the aroma of dust lingers in the air in that part of Eastie. Any concerns of asbestos particles in the area.
not that I could see
But I went by today at 8am .. before the collapse.
I will say that I never saw any water hoses being used when stuff was being torn down. Usually its used to keep the dust down./
Yes, it was hosed down
I live just up Princeton and walk by multiple times a day. The crew had been watering down the debris as the building was torn down up until the holiday storms hit.
Rain
The contractor probably figured the rain would assist in keeping the dust down.
I would have hoped they'd done a hazmat study prior to any work on the building - another requirement!
The contractors at a demo site near my work (Millbrook Cold Storage in Somerville) kept one grunt running a hose on the demo pile. But prior to that demo work was months of decommissioning, melting of all the ice, proper disposal of any hazmat. etc. It took a while and there were loads of specialty contractor on site.
If it did take a while to get to the actual building demo work, perhaps the hazmat work was being performed?
I noticed the same thing this
I noticed the same thing this morning
BFD Twitter Feed
The BFD Twitter feed indicates that someone called in the 'collapse'. So someone not on site felt something was unsafe.
Construction sites don't always need a detail and when they do it's typically the Police. If hot work (certain types of welding) is scheduled, they are supposed to have a Fire Watch.
MA has pretty tight regulations as to what ends up in our landfills. If this contractor is just piling it all into one dumpster, they're likely going to a transfer station of sorts where it will get separated before going on to the final destination.
Does anyone know which contractor is running this job?
I stumbled across this image
I stumbled across this image while browsing the BPL's Flickr this morning. Just around the corner in Maverick Square, six firefighters were killed in a 1942 building collapse. There's a small monument in the Square today. Anyway, it seemed too coincidental not to pass it along.
Historic Seville
It's really a shame they weren't able to do something with that historic old Seville Theater. It has fallen without a whimper because nobody remembers that it existed. It was quite elegant in it's day. Now it will be just more soulless condos.
yes
I agree. From when you could see inside. Looked like a nice big theatre.. big stadium seats.
Shame that movie theatres today would rather build huge multiplexes with similar amenities at malls, then try to re-vamp an older theatre with lots of charm.
Yea, 80% of these Developers
Yea, 80% of these Developers in East Boston do not live in East Boston!
They could care less about the concerns of people who live near their properties, all they care about is making a buck and buying big houses in Middleton or Lynnfield towns that are starting to be filled by Clowns from East Boston!
East Boston
" all they care about is making a buck and buying big houses in Middleton or Lynnfield towns that are starting to be filled by Clowns from East Boston!"
That started a long time ago. In the 60s and 70s a lot of the old time Italian residents of East Boston, the type that East Boston was once full of, migrated north and purchased houses in places like Lynnfield, Saugus and Peabody. At this point, Lynnfield, Saugus and Peabody are basically East Boston North. This also accounts for the fact that residents of these areas often have a very heavy "Boston accent" of one sort or another.
Sorry, Continuing to be
Sorry, Continuing to be filled by Clowns ..
Why do you call these people
Why do you call these people clowns? That was hard living in East Boston, mostly tenements. They worked hard and moved on up to single family houses, the American Dream.