An implosion brought down an old medical building in Fort Worth in seconds Sunday morning.
At 7:30 a.m. demolition crews, using a hundred pounds of explosives, imploded the eight-story Medical Tower building at the northeast corner of Rosedale Street and Eighth Avenue in the heart of the medical district.
"Waking up in the morning is a lot less of a problem than watching this thing go kaboom and fall down it was so cool," Hayden Broom, a young spectator said.
Right across the street, at the Rosebud cafe, Joan Sitzow and her co-workers now peer into a mountain of debris.
For Sitzow, the tower didn't only bring customers but memories as well.
"My dad and I used to go there when I was a little girl," Sitzow said.
It's expected to take several weeks to clear and recycle concrete and steel from the implosion.
The area is being cleared to make way for a new office tower and seven-level parking garage that's part of the $250 million expansion of Cook Children's Medical Center.
The new five-story, 118,865 square-foot building will be home to about 400 administrative employees now working in various locations, including Burnett Plaza in downtown Fort Worth.
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Cook Children's Medical Center says it should take about a year to complete the project.
