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Crews at the site of the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel site in New Orleans are moving another crane into place Tuesday to help secure the demolished crane over Canal Street, allowing the evacuation area to possibly shrink and some businesses nearby to reopen, officials announced via the city's NOLAReady Twitter account.

Details about how much the evacuation zone might shrink, when it might shrink and which businesses along Canal might soon reopen weren't released.

Last week city officials presented a timeline for when the implosion of the failed Hard Rock Hotel construction site would happen shortly after they announced the demolition of the building would move forward.

Engineers have determined that implosion is the safest way to dispose of the dangling carcass of the high-end hotel that pancaked on the morning of Oct. 12 with more than 100 workers on site, according to a statement from the developer, 1031 Canal Development LLC.



https://www.nola.com/news/article_04...032b79599.html