Is it normal for American buildings to only last 25 years? Do you think they even got a return on their investment?

>>510843006 (OP)
>brownoid engineers and builders.

>>510843006 (OP)
I asked chatgpt:

The Sheraton Crossroads Hotel in Mahwah, New Jersey was demolished via a controlled implosion in early May 2025 after sitting vacant for over a year. It closed permanently in December2023, after nearly four decades (it opened in October 1987) due to mounting difficulty attracting tenants—especially office space—and general decline in bookings despite efforts to redevelop surrounding land.


A classic case of high hopes that didn’t pan out: developers had envisioned expanding into an office complex but abandoned those plans when tenants never materialized. When prospects dimmed, the owners pivoted to warehousing for the 140‑acre site—and ultimately chose implosion as the quickest, most efficient way to clear the property for a new industrial logistics plan.


The implosion happened on May10/11, 2025, pulling in hundreds of onlookers along Route17 who witnessed the 22‑story glass and steel tower collapse in under 15 seconds.


Safety measures included road closures on Routes 17 and 287, interior gutting, asbestos removal, water cannons to control dust, and coordination between township agencies and New Jersey’s Department of Labor.


Now the site is under cleanup, with plans to build large warehouses or light‑industrial facilities. While the zoning was changed in 2024 to allow up to four million square feet of development, no final tenant has been announced as of mid‑July 2025.


TL;DR: It was demolished because the hotel failed to sustain viable business—especially office leases—and the owners opted to clear the site for future industrial redevelopment.

>>510843386
>after sitting vacant for over a year
Somebody could have lived there.

>>510843512
And chose not to, hence the inability to attract tenants being the primary factor in removing it.

>>510843006 (OP)
I've driven past this exact hotel on my way to work multiple times, and it never really looked like it was popular in any capacity for a hotel of that size. The area surrounding it isn't rich by any means and there's no real high profiles businesses near it to attract clientele that would be willing to pay for the room prices there.

>>510843757
Better blow it up so we don't end with with too many houses like China.

>>510844381
I dont think you understand basic supply and demand. Maybe read a book, nigger.

Some buildings here have lasted over 1,000 years, people forget that North America had civilization before colonization.

Pre-Columbian peoples built wooden and brick homes and in many ways we inherited an ancient civilization of corn.

>>510846797
What does that have to do with trashing things that are not used? Thinking like that is what got the Saturn 5 plants thrown away.

>>510847001
>plants
lol. lmao even.

>>510847047
Speaking of plants.

>>510846930

The oldest church is still standing, built in 1610 in Santa Fe. Liturgy is still conducted here over 400 years later, Catholic Mass.

It still stands because it is an institution that serves an important function, arguably the highest function in human civilization: Religion, worship of God.

>>510843006 (OP)
>>510843386
If it was built in the 80s, it likely got the Reagan rebate for big buildings. Government artificially driving supply.
These sort of projects are all fiat debt scams, ment to leave someone else as the bag holder.
Even if the company went bankrupt, they were likely still paying themselves $200,000+ salaries for the last 10 years. The debt is ment to be inflationed away while the lease holder collects rent in current dollar values.
In this case they didn’t have the right globohomo backer

>>510846930
Abode buildings require a YEARLY mud patching day to be upkept. You don’t really know what you are talking about

>>510848107
Its amazing how property value increase fewer people have much interest or time for maintenance.