The Arizona Republic
Oct. 24, 2007
Bandersnatch Brew Pub is scheduled to come tumbling down starting Thursday.
The gritty, downtown Tempe watering hole operated at the intersection of Fifth Street and Forest Avenue, a quick halftime walk from Sun Devil Stadium, for about three decades. It is slated to be replaced with a sleek new 11-story Marriott Residence Inn and parking garage.
A demolition crew will begin Thursday by removing the signs, ironwork art and handmade stained glass from inside the bar. Those pieces, along with the unique wooden front entry doors and a wood sculpture inside, are going to be squirreled away so they can be used to decorate the new Marriott’s hotel bar, according to Darcy Gray, of Layton Construction.
The building itself will come down starting Friday. Clearing the site should take a four-person work-crew up to two weeks, Layton said.
Construction is expected to begin on the Marriott in mid-January, and it would open about 15 months after that.
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