The Holiday Inn Select off 75 Central Expressway in Dallas TX saw it's last moment at 7:59am Sunday morning. At 8am on the dot, the building imploded.
Up until 7am, people were allowed at the site in order to get a good view of the implotion. Hundreds of people showed up to watch this building come down. The highway was closed for a while in order to allow the dust to clear.
What will go in its place? An 83 acre development of luxury condos, townhomes, senior living and medical offices. All this is expected to be completed fairly quickly, by December 2009.
Cool video Donna. It is always amazing to see how fast they can destroy a building.
Greg and Erik, I know! I still don't quite understand how the buildings go straight down when they go all over the place in the movies, but still looks very cool!
Don't tell me that Dallas is following the lead of Las Vegas -- If it's older than 20 years, tear it down!
I stayed at that hotel back in 1999. Too bad it's gone.
Hi Donna... I am always amazed at how neatly they seem to come down when imploded. The footprint of debris always seems relatively contained.
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Jim, They tear down buildings that don't need to be torn down, and they leave up buildings that should be torn down... They had already rebuilt a new Holiday Inn north of 635 several years ago, so this one slowly died out.
Steve, I know, how do they do that? They immediately had machines to control the dust and debri and remove it all. No time wasted.
Greg, blah blah blah....
Such an awesome video I saw a version of it on digg.com before this one. It's crazy how good people are at controlling explosions to cleanly take down a building. Awesome new development coming too. Carl's right I bet they paid a pretty price for that chunk of dirt.
C&C, Yes, I'm sure there did. It's good to get some nice, new condos and townhomes in that area since it's fairly rundown.
Jason, Yeah, I know. TV makes explosion go all over the place for dramatic effect.