Thursday, July 31, 2014

THE HAMPDEN DEMOLITION IN BETHESDA, DAY 3! (PHOTOS)

It's getting near the very end at The Hampden apartments. The entire upper floors of the building have now been demolished, leaving the basement level to be completed. Hey, who forgot to remove the Venetian blinds from the windows before the demolition? Couldn't some poor person have made use of perfectly good sets of blinds, rather than just trashing them with the rest of the building?



6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised they don't reuse some of this stuff.

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised there isn't a salvage company that *pays* to come in and strip out anything of value before tearing a building down.

C.M. said...

There is a certain fragileness in the realization that what memory you (ie. the universal "you") have of a place seems to have diminished to yours alone.

Someone ought coordinate with a non-profit like Goodwill or SA to have a pick-up or sweep-through before slated demolition dates.

Anonymous said...

What are you all seeing in this picture that is of high value?

Anonymous said...

FYI to anyone who doesn't know: the county requires developments to be at least LEED certified w/a good faith effort to reach at least a LEED Silver rating. A main component of that is the recycling of construction and demolition debris w/points awarded at the 50% and 75% thresholds. I'm confident any brick, concrete, wood, steel, aluminum blinds, etc. will be properly recycled. Not that such a thing completely mitigates the expenditure of resources on a new build, but it does make a difference.

Steve D. said...

"There is a certain fragileness in the realization that what memory you (ie. the universal "you") have of a place seems to have diminished to yours alone."

You said it. I think others with the same memory are still out there, but they become harder to find.