After DHEC clearance, demolition of Executive Inn resumes

After months of delay while health inspectors went back over the site searching for asbestos, demolition work has resumed at the Executive Inn on Anderson Road.

A small work crew was pulling tiles off the roof on Tuesday, and a backhoe was dumping the pieces into a large dump truck. Other debris was piled up around the former parking lot. Rooms had been gutted, with bare concrete walls exposed to the elements.

Just last week, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control issued the demolition permit, almost a year after the city declared the site “unfit for human occupancy.”

The inn was condemned by the city in October 2014 over several structural problems and the owner’s failure to address them. Several residents who were staying in the inn at the time had to be relocated after the condemnation.

But other than an office building being knocked down in late March, work on the site was delayed several times after inspectors found asbestos in more and more locations around the site.

This story was originally published September 1, 2015 at 6:40 PM with the headline "After DHEC clearance, demolition of Executive Inn resumes."