From the Asbury Park Press:
ASBURY PARK: The implosion of C-8, the abandoned steel skeleton high-rise that became the symbol of the failed redevelopment of the 1990s, is scheduled for 7 a.m. April 29, city officials said Wednesday.
Details of where the public will be allowed to gather to watch the demolition are still being worked out.
Metro Homes, a Hoboken-based developer, bought the site between Third and Fourth avenues on the waterfront and plans to begin construction of a 224-unit high-rise to be called the Esperanza.
Anyone who’s been to Asbury Park in the past decade knows what building this is. I remember seeing the Suicide Machines at the Warped Tour in 1996 and Jason Navarro pointed the building and asked, “When was the war and why the fuck wasn’t it on CNN?”
The implosion of this building will be a huge step in the redevelopment of Asbury Park. Besides that, it is just going to be fucking cool to see a building get imploded. I am going to do my best to be there.
