The Citizen-Times has the news:
ENKA — The iconic smokestacks of the former American Enka plant will be demolished Tuesday morning.
“We’re looking at popping them at 8 a.m. sharp,” said Brian Alexander, division manager for the Asheville office of D.H. Griffin Wrecking Co., which will do the work.
Workers will insert about 1,000 pounds of dynamite into the two brick structures to topple them. American Enka built the plant — which is between Smoky Park Highway and Sand Hill Road — in 1928, and in the following years the company built much of Enka Village itself.
I can’t believe I’m not going to be there to see this. Hope they bring me some killer video!
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This makes me a sad panda. More signs that the "old" Asheville, the one I grew up in is vanishing. I’m not saying if it’s for better or for worse, but when you’re 8 years old and waiting for your grandmother to get off work in a car outside of the place, damn if it didn’t look like a cool Gotham City type place for my comic book-addled brain.
I watched the Citizen-times video, WOW you guys really know how to capture the moments. Leave the video to the experts.
Now lets see….you have progress energy wanting to tear up more land to build a peak demand power plant and you have one being torn down that Progress could have negotiated to use or paid the company to make and provide power during peak times…makes a lot of sense doesn’t it? Maybe one of these days organizations will learn to communicate with each other in an effort to foster a better community.
Now lets see….you have progress energy wanting to tear up more land to build a peak demand power plant and you have one being torn down that Progress could have negotiated to use or paid the company to make and provide power during peak times…makes a lot of sense doesn’t it? Maybe one of these days organizations will learn to communicate with each other in an effort to foster a better community.
Don’t worry. We will. Check the site just after 8 a.m. for video (ashvid.net)
The interstate sign and now the stacks?