Looks like the reviews are not the only thing falling to pieces at the new Hilton.
I searched our local news to see if anyone was covering this story, and found nothing. Not saying that none of them covered it, but it seems to be off the radar screen like a KDLT weather forecast.
The retaining wall at the Hilton fell over. There are many reasons this could have happened. I am not a landscaper, but one told me it could be a combination of bad backfill, improper stones and placement and probably heavy rains, either way, it failed, and it is only a year old. Thank goodness no one was on the bike trail when it happened.
This property received a TIF, and a bulkhead subsidy from the city and this is how that money is being spent, on shoddy work.
This is what happens when growth is too fast and not well managed. I am all for progression in our city, but it must be done right and well thought out.
I heard they used crappy keystone blocks too small for the job without the proper backing.
sounds like the same engineer who did the metal work on the EC probably did the retaining wall. That means that no one did it. No calculations, no signed off drawings by an engineering firm, no nothing. Just another punch list item to be paid for by the city and not the contractors. Probably was designed by Jeff Schmitt design guy who came up with the nitwitted Shape Places, I know plaster the retaining wall with billboards, that will keep the wall up.