Today's demolition news: Edge/Wet and Food and Friends on
Square 699N are just about gone. The
Nexus Gold Club has lost its rear wall and its innards have been mostly scooped out. And a new entrant has possibly appeared in the Demolition Derby--innard-scooping appears to be going on as well at
Nation/1015 Half Street (which now has a "Wrecking Corporation of America" sign hung on its fencing). I took photos of some of these sites this morning (although this 967th overcast day in a row hampered the results): check the
New Jersey and I,
New Jersey and K, and
1st and L angles in the Photo Archive to see the before-and-after comparisons of those corners, or
see all the shots from today in a single group. I also skipped ahead a few hours and added the three all-but-gone structures to the
Demolished Buildings Gallery--there must be something about April, because we've had 17 buildings bulldozed in the last 18 days (will Nation be added to the list before the month is out?).
UPDATE: Just clarifying, there's no heavy machinery or obvious demolition going on at Nation yet--but a medium-sized hole has been punched in one outer wall, some doors were opened, and it looked like the interior has been newly stripped down.
And while it doesn't really qualify as a demolition, I'll also pass along that the temporary WMATA employee lot on the
Monument Half Street site has now been closed and is being dug out (they received their Certificate of Occupancy for the
new lot one block over on South Capitol last week)--this means that the entire Monument site on the east side of Half has now been cleared--and no time is being wasted with excavation, as you can tell if you go peek at the massive hole already dug around the Half and M Navy Yard Metro entrance or watch the digging at the lower left of
Stadium Construction Camera #2.