End of a tradition for University students
Closing of The Crossing and Yello Sub on 12th Street ill-received by some Popular hang-out spot to be replaced by a five-story residential complex.
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Heavy machinery reduced The Crossing, Yello Sub and three houses at 12th and Oread streets to debris in just three hours Saturday morning, forever altering the north-campus skyline.
Dan King, project manager for King Construction, said the demolition began at about 7:30 Saturday morning and ended at about 10:30 a.m.
“It was pretty simple with the big crack excavators,” he said.
King said trucks would ship what was left of the building debris to the city dump, which would take about a week.
Once the area is cleared out, his crew will start digging a giant hole where Oread Construction plans on building the Oread Inn. He said it would take about a month to dig the hole.
Casey Stewart, general supervisor of Oread Construction, said his crew would begin paving the concrete footings for the hotel once the hole was complete. He said the concrete work would take three to five weeks, depending on the weather. He said he estimated the Oread Inn would be finished by 2010.
Joseph Lazarus, Wichita junior lives across the street from the project at 1137 Indiana St.
“I’m all for economic development, and I think it’s good for the city in the long run,” Lazarus said. “The short-term effects of the construction are going to be kind of a pain though. Waking up to the early-morning sounds of heavy machinery tearing into the earth will be annoying.”
Danny Brownfield, Thiensville, Wis., sophomore, lives at the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house down the street from the project. He said his overall opinion about the Oread project was frustration.
“I’ve been a patron of The Crossing for two years now, and it was great because this was the perfect way to come down from campus,” Brownfield said. “Yello Sub and The Crossing had been there a really long time, and tearing it all down doesn’t really carry on the tradition at KU.”
David Barclay, Wichita junior, who lives near the project at 1211 Oread Ave., said he would miss the house at 1142 Indiana St.
“I just always remember that house as being like ‘Animal House,’” he said. “It was like the non-fraternity, fraternity house.”
— Edited by Daniel Reyes
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