A controlled the old Rosslyn Holiday Inn was demolished by implosion took seconds to bring it down. The old Rosslyn Holiday Inn that stood in Arlington, VA since 1972.
The site of the hotel is being demolished for a new development going up.
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The Rosslyn skyline got a little clearer Sunday morning–even if it’s only temporary.
Specially engineered charges strategically placed around the hotel brought tons of steel and concrete safely down on itself around 8:00 AM.
But Brendan Wooters puts it more succinctly.
“We saw a building literally blow up from the inside out,” he said.
The ten-year-old and his dad Mark made the trip from Arlington to the Georgetown waterfront to watch the hotel come down.
“Brendan had been seeing some implosions on YouTube and decided he wanted to see the real thing,” said Mark. “Pretty unique experience.”
The old hotel came down to make room for the new development to go up.
But for the spectators Sunday watching the Holiday Inn’s last moments, the focus was less on what’s replacing it and more on how it’s being replaced. Read more from WUSA9
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