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Hundreds of people crowded MacCorkle Avenue and surrounding streets in South Charleston about 9 a.m. to watch the implosion of the historic Building 82.
"It's an end of era," University of Charleston President Ed Welch said prior to the detonation.
Following the implosion a member of the Hanging Chads, a group of retired Carbide workers, played Taps.
"It's all in the name of progress," said George Weissert, of South Charleston and retired engineer with Carbide.
UC officials had originally planned for the implosion to happen at 8:56 a.m. The detonation was delayed by about five minutes because police had to move people who had stepped over the perimeter set up by O'Rourke Wrecking, the Ohio demolition company hired for the job.
Walt Mitchell of Cross Lanes won a raffle Friday evening for the chance to push the button to implode the building. His granddaughter, Shannon Cash, 12, did the honors at about 9:05 a.m. this morning.
The implosion was scheduled to be telecast live nationally on CBS, FOX, and ABC. Because of the delay not all the stations were able to air it live.
The first set of explosions went off with a deafening boom that shook the ground. The 106,000-square-foot building remained standing for about five seconds then a second round of explosions went off causing the building to fold onto itself and collapse in a cloud of brown dust.
A few bricks from the building landed on MacCorkle Avenue, but work crews quickly removed the debris and opened the street to traffic.
All roads in South Charleston were reopened by 10:30 a.m.
U.C. brought in its student band and cheerleaders to the event. Members of the school's student council were selling commemorative bricks for $10.
The building is the last remnant of Union Carbide and its part in this community, Welch said. Its implosion is the start of a new chapter for further development in South Charleston, he said.
Dow Chemical Co. donated the structure, known as Building 82, to the university in 2006.
University officials plan to sell the 6.8-acre site once the remains of the building are removed. UC is paying about $1.6 million to demolish the building.
The land is priced at about $3.5 million.
About five groups have shown interest in the site, Welch said after the implosion.
"If it brings in jobs and improves the tax bracket, then yes indeed," Paul Smart, a retired Carbide Worker, said. "I mean, gosh, it's not like West Virginia could use a little economic development."
Read more in the Sunday Gazette-Mail.
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