A Georgia city will blow up an old hotel to greet 2025

The Macon-Bibb County Commission approved a plan to implode a vacant 16-story hotel on New Year’s Eve as a way to welcome 2025. The city purchased the hotel for $4.5 million last year and will spend up to $2.6 million to hire a demolition firm for the implosion. The hotel, which opened in 1970 and had notable guests like Elvis, was never financially successful and was seized in 1991 due to its involvement in a fraud and money-laundering scheme.

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