Unfinished Harmon Hotel demolished piece by piece

By MARK DAMON LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

11 years ago

Construction crews, lower left, work on demolishing the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Construction crews, upper right, work on demolishing the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Construction crews, including a man on upper left, work on demolishing the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Construction crews work on demolishing the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Construction crews, lower right, work on demolishing the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Construction crews, lower left, work on demolishing the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A tower crane lowers a concrete slab by the Aria hotel-casino as the demolition continues of the unfinished Harmon Hotel tower on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in Las Vegas. The planned 47-story tower, part of MGM Resort International’s $8.5 billion, 67-acre CityCenter development, was deemed structurally unsound after defects were found in 2008 during construction. The tower will take about a year and $11.5 million to deconstruct. (Photo by David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A tower crane lowers a concrete slab as the demolition continues of the unfinished Harmon Hotel tower on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in Las Vegas. The planned 47-story tower, part of MGM Resort International’s $8.5 billion, 67-acre CityCenter development, was deemed structurally unsound after defects were found in 2008 during construction. The tower will take about a year and $11.5 million to deconstruct. (Photo by David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A worker installs scaffolding along the top edge of the Harmon Hotel as the demolition of the unfinished tower continues Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in Las Vegas. The planned 47-story tower, part of MGM Resort International’s $8.5 billion, 67-acre CityCenter development, was deemed structurally unsound after defects were found in 2008 during construction. The tower will take about a year and $11.5 million to deconstruct. (Photo by David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Construction crews worked on taking down the unfinished Harmon Hotel at CityCenter on Monday.

The building is being taken down because it was found to be unsafe by officials. The total cost of the demolition, which involves taking the building down piece by piece, is expected to be $11.5 million.