Blog Tag - demolitions

Dirty Bar Street Shakeup Continues With Forthcoming Closure of La Pizza Branch, Razing of Nightclubs
Dirty Bar Street continues on its march towards complete upheaval. During a recent visit, we noticed that the demolitions that kicked off roughly a...
How to Avoid Getting Evicted in the Latest Round of Housing Demolitions
This summer’s Great Brickening has hit home – or, more precisely, homes. The tragic fire in Daxing last weekend seems to have accelerated the Beijing...
Get Stuff'd While You Still Can: Hutong Sausage and Suds Favorite Being Bricked Up, But Remains Open for Business (For Now)
And the hits just keep coming. Yet another hutong favorite has fallen on hard times, thanks to the relentless bricking-up of street-level businesses...
"Keep It Alive and Find a Way" The Creative Entrepreneurs Defying Beijing's Street Business Crackdown
Even though their doors have been blocked by bricks, and bars have been fixed to their windows, many streetside Beijing businesses have remained...