Oh yeah that's still going on

Well we were gonna blow it up. Then we were gonna take it apart. Then we were gonna blow it up again. Then the world went all to shit so we're back to arguing now.

The demolition of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans is once again in limbo, with the city and the developers behind the project at loggerheads over how to bring down the partially-collapsed structure that has remained virtually untouched for five months.

City officials and 1031 Canal Street Development, the firm led by developer Mohan Kailas that was building the project, are each pushing different contractors and different methods of knocking down what remains of the 18-story building and retrieving the bodies of two workers that are still buried in the rubble.

The insurer says it's too expensive to implode so the developer wants to go back to piece-by-piece demo. The city wants to do the implosion and make the developer pay for it. It's not clear what the end game strategy is now.  The thinking had been the developers want the whole lot plus adjacent buildings they own cleared away because that would make the block more attractive for resale. 

But now, who knows.  Who knows what any land is worth right now, anyway.