Bloc Grand Central Update - demolition complete and site cleared!
BLOC Grand Central Update: Site all cleared; piling rig due to arrive; and building contractor to be announced. Take our great article to see just how quick work has progressed through 2019.
Before the exciting Bloc Grand Central Hotel can commence, Gallan House, an unsightly sixties building needed to come down.
Bloc Hotels Group have had their fair share of hiccups along the way, but scaffolding went up all around the building in March (2019), Station Road was then reduced to one lane, and Cawarden Co. Demolition finally consigned Gallan House to the history books.
Check out its progress here:
DECEMBER 2018:
Internal stripout underway
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After a few hiccups, the site went quiet. But then..
MARCH 2019:
Scaffolding starts to go up, Station Road was reduced to one lane, with fencing going up to aid demolition crews, and the building was of course fully wrapped for health and safety.
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APRIL:
Portacabins were delivered on site one by one.
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MAY:
A Cawarden Co. Demolition excavator arrived on site.
Quick progress was being made over the coming weeks.
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JUNE:
Going, going, pretty much gone!
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Big brother and his little bruv sifting through the rubble.
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JULY:
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LATEST PICTURES OF THE SITE - JULY 28TH:
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Lets hope in the next update we'll see a piling rig on site. Roll on construction!
Photos by Greater Birmingham Developments: Tomas Grunt, Stephen Giles and Reiss Gordon Henry.