The Sands Implosion

Last Thursday night was the demise of Atlantic City's Smallest Casino. Pinnacle Entertainment of Las Vegas bought the aging casino for a reported 250 MM last year and closed it on November 11th, 2006 with intentions of imploding it later. Pinnacle also bought land around the casino including the land abutting the Boardwalk infront of the existing Sands. Pinnacle also baught another existing smaller Non-Casino hotel next to the existing Sands Parking Garage, and added it to their portfolio of land. Pinnacle has made it public that they intend to build a mega-gambling and entertainment palace costing about 2 Billion dollars. It would most likely include about 2,000 rooms, luxury shopping, restaurants, clubs, and entertainment space. Kim Townsend, who is overseeing the development of the project insists that this is the awakening of the Atlantic City market, and Atlantic City will be like Las Vegas in the next 10 years.

Anyway, more about the implosion.
There was a very long and beautiful display of Fireworks that adorned the White walls of the Sands Casino tower. After a suspenseful 6-10 minutes of fireworks, one could see the explosions of dynamite reflecting through the glass windows. After another few seconds, the western side of the tower began to fall backwards, followed by the middle, and then followed by the Eastern Facade of the building. The last side to fall was bright with lights shining on it, and the Sands Logo on the building seemed to fall trustingly backwards, never to stand anymore. Soon after, a huge ploom of dust flew up into the atmosphere making a mushroom-cloud like dust ball.

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O Implosion do Hotel de Areias e Cassino era uns acontecimentos extravagantes, caracteriza fogos de artifício, e um colapso muito alto. A apresentação era aproximadamente 15 minues longo, e beleive me, era uma visão muito extraordinária. Em seu lugar, Divertimento de Cúpula de Las vegas em planejar construir um 2 bilhões de refúgio de dólar com mais de 2.000 conjuntos de hotel de luxo e caracterizará compras de luxo, jantar, e um centro de acontecimento.