Nearly a decade after a gunman killed 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, the building is being demolished Wednesday to make way for a permanent memorial.
Around 9 a.m. Wednesday, a large crane began tearing down the building along South Orange Avenue, a site long used to remember the 2016 tragedy at the LGBTQ nightclub. TLocal news stations broadcast the teardown live, months after city crews began carefully removing items from the building to preserve them. The iconic Pulse sign was removed last week and will be stored in an undisclosed location for possible use in the memorial during construction, Spectrum News reports.
