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At 8:56 a.m. Saturday the building will be brought down by implosion with as much ceremony as might be possible for a demolition.
"The building had to be demolished to make it more attractive to potential developers because it would just be too expensive to renovate it," South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullens said. "Once that building is down we'll have one of the most valuable pieces of property on Route 60 in Kanawha County. Now, that's just my opinion.
"There's a lot of interest in this piece of property and I expect it'll pick up once the building is down," the mayor said. "We want to see the property developed so that we can bring more jobs here to South Charleston."
Built in 1948, the 11-story building that stands across from Dow's South Charleston plant served as Union Carbide's regional corporate headquarters for a long time.
Bought by Dow Chemical in 2001, the building was donated to the University of Charleston in 2006. The school originally intended to update the building and use it to house graduate students, but the plan was scrapped when the school found that it would cost more than $10 million to bring the building up to modern standards.
The private university then decided to raze the building and sell the property whole for $3.5 million.
Starting at 8:25 a.m., a small ceremony will be held on B Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, near Los Agaves restaurant. University of Charleston President Ed Welch and the mayor will speak, along with former UC baseball player Chris Belcher. Belcher now is the president of Pinnacle Environmental, the Ohio-based consulting firm that has done work getting ready for the implosion. Belcher got the winning bid in an online auction to push the button to blow up the building, but he donated his win back to the university to raffle off again.
Raffle tickets can be purchased until 4 p.m. today by calling 304-357-4820.
The winner will be announced at 5 p.m. at UC's Triana Field in Kanawha City.
Officials have cordoned off a 700-foot perimeter around the demolition site. MacCorkle Avenue will be closed to traffic Saturday from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. from Montrose Drive to 7th Avenue.
UC's Student Government Association will be selling commemorative bricks at the ceremony for $10.
Mullens said the best place to watch the demolition will be at Los Agaves restaurant or the South Charleston Public Library at the corner of D Street and 4th Avenue.
"From a community standpoint there are a lot of mixed emotions around this," Mullens said of the demolition. "A lot of people worked in that building their entire careers. But it's also a necessary move for the future."
Contact writer Ashley B. Craig at ashley.craig@dailymail.com or 304-348-4850.
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