Jenna DeJong / Summit Daily
An excavator being used for construction on a winter plaza ran into the side of the Hotel Frisco, going through the second-floor wall and common area on October 4th. The hotel manager determined that the hotel needed to vacate all visitors inside of the building due to the excavating construction occurring close to the building. This cost the hotel as they had to provide accommodations at nearby hotels for the residents that were evacuated. Once the visitors had been vacated, construction went back underway, and a machine operator hit the side of the hotel with the bucket of his crane.
Then an order to stop construction was made on October 5th due to the winter plaza construction crew exposing part of the Hotel Frisco’s foundation. Five truckloads of debris had to be taken away from the site after the incident. The hotel owner assumes it will take nearly the same number of trucks worth of material to fill the hole back up which will be happening within the next week.