The reason it's taking so long is due to asbestos removal and recycling of materials.
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2014/12/1...y/at5bbla/

For those of you interested there is a live webcam of the takedown. Watch your former dorm room get flattened by the wrecking crane!
http://douglascamera.niu.edu/

Down goes Douglas!

I wish the university sold Douglas bricks as a fundraiser.

Bricks or concrete chunks covered with brown rust spots?

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Why would anybody want to buy a piece of concrete? I bet that would raise about $10.00.

(12-17-2014 09:57 AM)NIUHuskie4life Wrote:  Bricks or concrete chunks covered with brown rust spots?

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Those brown spots would not be rust! I don't care; I'd buy it anyway.

Well...either they're crap stains or stains from the metal structuring behind the concrete lol

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it was a dump, but its hurts just a bit to see it going down.

(12-17-2014 03:40 PM)calvin12 Wrote:  it was a dump, but its hurts just a bit to see it going down.

With my many memories now buried in the pile of rubble.

(12-17-2014 03:41 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(12-17-2014 03:40 PM)calvin12 Wrote:  it was a dump, but its hurts just a bit to see it going down.

With my many memories now buried in the pile of rubble.

not yet for me a-wing is still solid on the outside, but my d-wing room is gone.

(12-17-2014 03:40 PM)calvin12 Wrote:  it was a dump, but its hurts just a bit to see it going down.

I say the same thing as I flush the toilet. EVERY TIME.

Is it just me or does the bobcat (vehicle not animal) on the roof of the remaining wing on the left seem like a very bad idea?...especially while that wing is currently being demolished from the bottom up!

http://douglascamera.niu.edu/view/viewer...ml?id=6756

(12-30-2014 10:56 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Is it just me or does the bobcat (vehicle not animal) on the roof of the remaining wing on the left seem like a very bad idea?...especially while that wing is currently being demolished from the bottom up!

http://douglascamera.niu.edu/view/viewer...ml?id=6756

Dude, wow. Ya looks pretty cavalier haha. Godspeed to him/her.

(12-30-2014 02:28 PM)NIURedBlack Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 10:56 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Is it just me or does the bobcat (vehicle not animal) on the roof of the remaining wing on the left seem like a very bad idea?...especially while that wing is currently being demolished from the bottom up!

http://douglascamera.niu.edu/view/viewer...ml?id=6756

Dude, wow. Ya looks pretty cavalier haha. Godspeed to him/her.

Nice catch.. does not seem safe at all.

I've only been on campus for games. Can anyone tell me which building is which? Is the building in the middle (with the cool roof) apart of Douglas?

(12-30-2014 02:50 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 02:28 PM)NIURedBlack Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 10:56 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Is it just me or does the bobcat (vehicle not animal) on the roof of the remaining wing on the left seem like a very bad idea?...especially while that wing is currently being demolished from the bottom up!

http://douglascamera.niu.edu/view/viewer...ml?id=6756

Dude, wow. Ya looks pretty cavalier haha. Godspeed to him/her.

Nice catch.. does not seem safe at all.

I imagine they have the wing structurally enhanced and braced to allow it to operate up there.

(12-30-2014 02:57 PM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 02:50 PM)Huskies2006 Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 02:28 PM)NIURedBlack Wrote:  

(12-30-2014 10:56 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Is it just me or does the bobcat (vehicle not animal) on the roof of the remaining wing on the left seem like a very bad idea?...especially while that wing is currently being demolished from the bottom up!

http://douglascamera.niu.edu/view/viewer...ml?id=6756

Dude, wow. Ya looks pretty cavalier haha. Godspeed to him/her.

Nice catch.. does not seem safe at all.

I imagine they have the wing structurally enhanced and braced to allow it to operate up there.

Yeah, I'm sure they didn't just send up some random bobcat without checking for safety. Just looks super dangerous.

(12-30-2014 02:53 PM)Enaiu Wrote:  I've only been on campus for games. Can anyone tell me which building is which? Is the building in the middle (with the cool roof) apart of Douglas?

The angular wavy roof building was the central hub of Douglas. That was the center of 4 wings, 2 of which are already gone. The main road will continue thru where Douglas is now to the Convo center to connect the whole campus.

(12-18-2014 01:26 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(12-17-2014 03:40 PM)calvin12 Wrote:  it was a dump, but its hurts just a bit to see it going down.

I say the same thing as I flush the toilet. EVERY TIME.

While I felt like a six-year-old laughing at that, I can't deny you got me, my six-year-old, my eight-year-old, my eleven-year-old AND my wife LOL w that one.....

Douglas goes down. Lincoln still stands. History repeats it self--for now.