Developer: Demolition of former Daily Camera building to start next week

The former Daily Camera building at 1048 Pearl St. is seen in April. Demolition is expected to begin next week. (Cliff Grassmick / Daily Camera)

Demolition of the brick building that once housed the operations of the Daily Camera in downtown Boulder is scheduled to occur next week, a couple days after an early morning project to replace a transformer on the property.

Early next week, likely Tuesday morning, a backhoe will start ripping down the building at 1048 Pearl St., said Dan Schuetz, project manager for Nichols Partnership.

Schuetz's Denver-based firm is developing PearlWest, a 160,000-square-foot commercial development on the site of the Camera's former properties at 1048 Pearl and 1023 Walnut St.

Construction-related work on PearlWest commenced on May 12 with workers fencing off the property. In the days following, they demolished the brick wall and archway that lined the sidewalk along Pearl Street.

The building was expected to start coming down as well, but that work should come next week.

"There are just a lot of moving parts in a project like this, probably thousands of moving parts," Schuetz said.

The majority of the activity in recent weeks has been based in the alley south of 1048 Pearl, where workers conducted pre-construction work to replace an existing transformer that fed the building and three neighboring properties.

Xcel Energy plans to remove the existing transformer and install a new transformer between 3 and 7 a.m. Sunday, said Mark Stutz, a spokesman for the utilities provider.

A "handful" of customers would be affected by the transition, he said.

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Developer: Demolition of former Daily Camera building to start next week