Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Saturday afternoon that after cancelling the Krewe of Boo parade, the parade in downtown New Orleans is back on due to a delay in the planned demolition of two damaged cranes at the side of the Hard Rock Hotel nearby.

Krewe of Boo was scheduled to parade downtown at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The parade was set to start on Elysian Fields Avenue, the proceed through the French Quarter and Central Business District before ending at Andrew Higgins Blvd.

The cancellation, and then return of the parade, came as engineers and work crews are preparing for a demolition of the two cranes that were damaged last weekend when a partial collapse of the half-built Hard Rock Hotel sent concrete, metal and debris crashing down.

The city has established an evacuation zone around the hotel site at the corner of Canal and Rampart streets. Crews are in the process of rigging the two cranes with explosives. Before the city pushes the button to begin the implosion, officials will be going through an expanded, temporary evacuation zone to move people out of harm's way.

New Orleans fire chief Tim McConnell said at a midday press conference Saturday that they now expect the demolition to occur on Sunday.

The whole demolition is supposed to happen quickly — within a matter of seconds, and if all goes according to plan the cranes will collapse onto themselves and land in a heap within the confines of the building site.

Still, as a precaution, leaders have requested that residents don't come downtown to view demolition.