page_title: 1031 Canal
section_title: Demolition of former Woolworths store
hierarchical_section_title: 1031 Canal / Demolition of former Woolworths store
caption_attribution_description: English: Canal Street at intersection of Rampart Street, New Orleans Central Business District. Postcard view. Not dated; circa 1960. Front right is the Woolworth, beyond Maison Blanche is seen.
context_page_description: 1031 Canal is a partially collapsed 190-foot-tall multi-use high rise building in New Orleans, Louisiana, located at 1031 Canal Street in the Central Business District. If completed, the project would have been known as the Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans.
  After months of controversy, on September 22, 2011, the New Orleans City Council voted 5–2 to approve the necessary height variances with provisions. As proposed the building would have included 300 market-rate apartments, a 500-space parking garage and 40,000 square feet of retail space on the first two floors.
  The project has undergone a lengthy and controversial development process.
  On October 12, 2019, the under-construction building partially collapsed, killing three workers and injuring dozens of others. As of 2020, the building site remains in its partially collapsed state. Government officials are debating the project's future and potential culpability of various people and organizations involved.
context_section_description: A permit to demolish the existing building, a former Woolworth store constructed in the 1930s and vacant since the late 1990s, was issued in April 2014, and demolition began in October 2014, with completion scheduled for 2016.
caption: Woolworth store at 1031 Canal (c. 1960)
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