Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Real Estate Law Blog

We continue to learn more about the circumstances leading up to the Salvation Army Thrift Shop disaster. As most of Philadelphia knows, a wall at a demolition site adjacent to the Salvation Army site collapsed on June 5, 2013, killing six and injuring more than a dozen other people in the store at the time.

The collapse of the Salvation Army store on June 5 has put the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections smack in the middle of the controversy. In the last week, department officials have heard from the contractor whose firm was responsible for demolition at the site as well as Mayor Michael Nutter.