Echelon building undergoing repairs

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Workers are picking up the pace on repairs to a northwest Austin building damaged when a man intentionally crashed his plane into it last year.

The scene on the morning of Feb. 18,  2010, at the Echelon building was that of calamity and chaos as Andrew Joseph Stack's plane burst through the glass windows and fire erupted. Earlier in the day, Stack had set his North Austin home on fire.

Now workers on scaffolds are busy making repairs to the shell of the structure. The owners of the building plan to rebuild. Current work includes putting up glass curtain walls, reroofing the building and beginning to build out the interior. The elevator has been ordered for installation in October.

An official with KVA Asset Management, Kevin Kimball, said Friday the building will be ready for tenants to move into in early 2012.

The building had to be gutted after the plane crashed into the Internal Revenue Service offices at the site.

The crash killed Stack and an IRS worker, Vernon Hunter, inside the building.