Old Broadway QFC Demolition Now in Progress

It's a little eerie--one of the shovels has picked up a 15' stretch of I-beam and is using it to drag swaths of rubble up into a pile. Obviously there's someone in the cabin operating the thing, but glimpsed out of the corner of your eye, it looks like a machine has learned how to use tools.

So goodbye old Broadway QFC! Goodbye, old Broadway Taco Bell! Goodbye, old house! Maybe now we'll see some action on the plans for the block, as reported by the Stranger back in June 2006:

This site will soon [Ed: Hah!] become a 6-story mixed-use building. On the ground floor there will be 25,000 foot of retail. "I'm looking for boutiques--like apparel," says the developer Bob Burkheimer. "Independent shops, maybe a restaurant. The idea is to get more street-level retail on Broadway, liven it up."

Here's a view of the planned liveliness.

In the meantime, here's a Flickr series on the QFC demolition, and some coverage on the newly revamped CHS.