Nearly a year and a half after city officials promised swift demolition of the former DeGaulle Manor apartment complex in Algiers, the eyesore still hulks over the neighborhood.
Flanked by dump trucks and earth movers, officials with Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration announced in May 2024 that the sprawling former housing complex would be soon be demolished as part of the city’s “Dirty Dozen” effort to tackle high-profile blighted properties across the city.
But action at the site came to a halt soon after, when the city’s initial contract with demolition company Durr Heavy Construction ended “due to a change in scope of work and unexpected asbestos abatement costs,” a spokesperson for Cantrell said in an email this week. A spokesperson for Durr Heavy Construction declined to comment on Friday…