Killer Quake. Early Childhood Education & Antique World Demolition

Peterborough St demolition focus. 1.05.11. Eleven weeks post 22 Feb, M6.3 Killer Quake, I trekked Peterborough St, recently escaped from the strangling CBD red zone, guarded by cops & NZDF soldiers at crossing cordons. Peterborough St was blitzed by the quake: road, houses, businesses. EXTREME DANGER, damage everywhere.


11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, Southern Demolition sign, demolition, Early Childhood Education, Peterborough St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site


11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow digger. Demolition, Early Childhood Education & Antique World bldg, Peterborough St / Victoria St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site







Opp Christchurch Casino, Peterborough St / Victoria St steel mesh fence cordoned demolition in progress: 4 storey, Early Childhood Education & Antique World, gouged by a yellow digger, debris festooned the wound, workmen in the bldg chucked debris onto a rubble pile below. Stationery fluttered about. A copper salvage heap, Victoria St side.


11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow digger. Feb 22 quake demolition, Early Childhood Education, Peterborough St / Victoria St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site






11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Workman in yellow, Hi-Vis vest checking Feb 22 quake, demolition rubble, Early Childhood Education, Victoria St / Peterborough St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site. Quake damaged, Victoria Mansions, Jubilee Clock Tower left


11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, salvaged copper, Early Childhood Education demolition, Victoria St / Peterborough St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site. Christchurch Casino, Crowne Plaza Hotel beyond. Hotel would be demolished


11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Yellow digger. Feb 22 quake, Victoria St view, Early Childhood Education & Antique World demolition, Victoria St / Peterborough St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site




11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Victoria St / Peterborough St, demolition site view, Early Childhood Education demolition site right, Christchurch


*Trekked Peterborough St. 20 snaps.

Coda:

18.05.11. Mainland Press reported that the CBD needed 900 commercial bldg demolitions. To date only 100 commercial bldgs were demolished in 3 months, despite National State of Emergency powers. Given that rate it would take more than 2 years to complete CBD demolitions, never mind rebuilds. 300 commercial bldg demolitions were also needed in the suburbs. And that wasn't counting 1 000s of housing demolitions & rebuilds.

28.06.12. Sixteen months post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, Christchurch CBD would still be strangled by CERA's red zone cordon & N-S division along Gloucester St. Little rebuild, many demolitions pending.

16.03.13. Two years post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, CERA's strangling red zone cordons would still be around the CBD, including NZDF checkpoints. Many demolition sites in the CBD, little rebuild. NZDF would occupy the red zone CBD for 28 months post 22.02.11 quake, before CERA dispensed with strangling military cordons & NZDF checkpoints.

Jan 2014. Little rebuild in CCDU's core CBD.

Jan 2015. Some new bldgs in the CBD. Many demolitions. No CERA Blueprinted, anchor projects built, or even started. Just cosmetic "improvements" to Avon River banks by Antigua Boat Shed, like revamped footpaths.

New DJCA Sidekick would be build on the Early Childhood Education site.

Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.