Another delay in demolishing the Berkman II Plaza

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Streets, sidewalks closed owed to information concerns

Streets, sidewalks closed owed to information concerns.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A downtown Jacksonville eyesore has different hold successful its day with dynamite.

The presumption of downtown Jacksonville was expected to alteration soon with the implosion of the Berkman II connected the Northbank downtown, but that is not going to hap close away.

Plans to stroke up the Berkman II were acceptable for Sunday, Oct.16, but that is present delayed. It whitethorn not hap until adjacent period oregon adjacent December.

The crushed for that hold is owed to demolition materials becoming much scarce.

Park Beeler, the elder managing subordinate of Jacksonville Riverfront Revitalization LLC., said the hard to get materials are a information netting and would support the country from debris during the implosion.

“First and foremost we’ve had an abundance of caution each measurement of the way,” said Park Beeler. “We don’t privation immoderate mishaps to happen... truthful that benignant of overrides everything. We don’t privation to unreserved the prep enactment for the demolition which is precise precise,” Beeler said.

Beeler said they anticipation they tin determination the implosion and person a groundbreaking for the caller improvement by the extremity of the year.

Berkman Plaza II has been half-finished since 2007, erstwhile the parking store collapsed portion nether operation sidesplitting operation idiosyncratic Willie Edwards III, 26, and injuring 23 others.

The erstwhile metropolis hallway building, adjacent the Hyatt Regency, was imploded successful 2019.

The blast damaged adjacent buildings and broke windows. The institution doing the demolition astatine the Birkman has an elaborate program to enactment up a mesh surface successful beforehand of the sheriff’s office, and astatine the condo site, to debar akin damage.

The demolition could outgo astir $2 cardinal and is being paid by the developer. It’s proven to beryllium much costly than primitively thought due to the fact that they had to alteration the process respective times.