The New Orleans Office of Inspector General has recommended charges be filed against two additional city inspectors who likely did not physically inspect the Hard Rock Hotel construction site before its collapse.
One year after the Hard Rock construction site partially collapsed, the developers of 1031 Canal filed a lawsuit against dozens of contractors, engineers, and subcontractors.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell said words cannot describe how grateful the city is now that the third victim of the Hard Rock collapse, Jose Ponce Arreola, has been removed from the site.
Demolitions crews are continuing to take down the Hard Rock Hotel site and they are expected to soon reach the bodies of the workers who died in the collapse.
New Orleans City Officials will also give an update about the demolition of the Hard Rock collapse site and the recovery of the bodies of two workers who remain inside.
New Orleans City Officials will give an update about the demolition of the Hard Rock collapse site and the recovery of the bodies of two workers who remain inside.
Mayor Latoya Cantrell says the owners of the collapses Hard Rock Hotel construction site failed to meet a court-ordered deadline, which will push back the demolition.
The company contracted by the developers of the doomed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans to knock the building down does not have the liability insurance to do the job, according to 1031 Canal Development.
The City of New Orleans will be demoting Zachary Smith, the head of the city’s Department of Safety and Permits, the city’s chief administrative officer confirms to FOX 8 News on Monday. The move comes after discrepancies were exposed in a series of FOX 8 Investigations.
FOX 8 has uncovered additional discrepancies between the New Orleans Department of Safety and Permits inspection logs and GPS data from vehicles in the department.
Two inspectors with the City of New Orleans Department of Safety and Permits have been placed on emergency suspension, following a series of FOX 8 reports that revealed discrepancies between city inspection logs and GPS records of the department’s vehicles.
A third inspector likely did not visit the Hard Rock Hotel construction site despite signing off on work at the site, according to FOX 8′s ongoing analysis of GPS data from the City of New Orleans.
An examination of the City of New Orleans GPS records shows additional discrepancies with more city inspectors at the site of the Hard Rock Hotel. The records were requested by FOX 8 News in December 2019, following the deadly collapse in October that killed three men.
A city inspector that performed several inspections at the Hard Rock Hotel construction site was not certified during some of those inspections, records obtained by FOX 8 show.
New Orleans City Hall officials are investigating whether employees signed off on inspections at the construction site of the Hard Rock Hotel without visiting the project. The site collapsed in October killing three men and leaving a scar on the city's skyline.
Hard Rock International said the tragic collapse at 1031 Canal St. in New Orleans in October has tarnished its reputation around the world, despite the fact it had nothing to do with the construction of the building.
The city's spent nearly $12 million on police, firefighters, and other costs, and so far, the CAO says 1031 Canal, the Hard Rock owners haven't paid a dime.
