Imploding One of the North Park Office Tower on East Side of Central SUNDAY!

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....446a5288.html
Streets to close Sunday around implosion site

11:54 AM CST on Friday, January 27, 2006
From Staff Reports



If you hope to witness Sunday morning’s building implosion in North Dallas in person, you’ve got several vantage points to choose from – but you might want to get there early.

The 10-story NorthPark Three office tower will be coming down to make way for the new Park Lane Place development, south of Park Lane on the east side of Central Expressway.

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Breakfast at the Blast (official site)
Harvest Partners, developer of the new mixed-use project, is hosting a “Breakfast at the Blast” event beginning at 6:30 a.m. at 8070 Park Lane, adjacent to the site.

For $20, patrons can watch the implosion from an eighth-floor view, eat a southwestern-style breakfast and enter into a raffle to press the button that will begin the implosion. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Vickery Meadow Improvement District, which coordinates revitalization efforts for the neighborhood to the northeast of the new project.

Officials said the reinforced concrete building has already been gutted. The implosion will use less than 100 pounds of explosives that have been strategically placed on the first, second, fourth and seventh floors to help drive the progressive collapse. Explosives will ignite on the northeast corner of the building and move to the southwest corner, and the entire collapse is expected to take about 10 seconds.

Those wanting to simply watch the implosion from a nearby location can find good views from parking lots across Greenville Avenue and Central Expressway, although some portions of the surface lots and garages at NorthPark Center may be closed to public access.

A spokesperson for Harvest Partners said several streets in the area will be closed Sunday morning before and during the implosion. Blackwell Street will be closed between Greenville Avenue and Central Expressway beginning at 7:00 a.m. Greenville Avenue will close between Park Lane and Northwest Highway at 7:30, followed by both directions of the Central Expressway access road at 7:45.

Park Lane and the main lanes of Central Expressway in both directions will close a few minutes before the blast, which is scheduled for 8 a.m., the spokesperson said.

All roads are expected to re-open after the implosion, once the cloud of debris has subsided.
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I've been trying to find a picture of it but no luck. I think it had glass walls basically but would guess that the glass has been removed for safety reasons.
Looked at Google maps, put in 8070 Park Lane, and it looks to be one of 4 buildings but most likely the one that is due south of the two buildings that are closest to Park Lane.

[Davidtxs]

Im sure this is the one the building to the south is Northpark IV, Ill try to drive by it tommorrow and see what is around it
anyone up for meeting ??

[photosteve]

Yet I was thinking of scouting things out. Did anyone fine a good parking lot roof we could get access too ? I like to join up and I'll bring donuts

PhotoSteve

[PeteQ]

I'm in! I have a shoot at 10:00 about 10 minutes from there so I think I can hit both!

[engstrom]

Wow, hitting the big red button (OK, it my imagination it's big and red) that starts the implosion would be so cool. I've had this thing with big red buttons - I always want to push them. Makes it hard to walk by an EPO button in a datacenter.

[jackson]

Believe it or not, I actually have an image of this building. I took this when there was still a Northpark Racquet Club :-P

[boxofrocks]

man--I'd love to meet up if you find a suitable vantage point. Any progress on the front, please let me know!

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

There was just a story about the implosion on Ch 5 and it is the building in the B+W photo above and THEY HAVE NOT REMOVED THE GLASS!!! Should be interesting.

I saw the old YMCA building go down in downtown Dallas over a dozen years ago and I do plan to attend this event. If someone had access to an office in the old Fina Building or the Office tower on the other corner of NW Hwy and Central a nice 200-300mm or better lense could probably get a great shot in. Not sure of any vantage points at the Mall or over on Greenville Ave, the rail line would probably block most views, and we sure don't want to stand on the DART rail line and shoot.
I may just swing by there today and see if there are any vantage points that would be easily available.

IF YOU GO BE PREPAIRED FOR THE DUST CLOUD! You would be amazed with the volumne of dust that these implossions create.

That Google photo is a bit old-DART rail line was still under construction!

[pippin]

thats not far from where i live actually...

i may go attend...

[Davidtxs]

Well went by there today and all the parkin lots along greenville are a lot lower than the building, plus you have a lot of power lines and the dart rail lines to shoot throughl, from the Northpark parkin lot or the garage on the east side of northpark would be PERFECT but i read where they are going to close some of northparks lots , plus you would be shooting right into the sun at 8 am.
There is a parkin lot directly north and south of the building they are the places to get, if they dont close them.

I am gping to leave plano around 6 or so if worse comes to worse I may go to the breakfast but im not sure how shooting through tinted glass would work

anyoone up to trying to meet??

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

YEah it looks to be a tough shoot because of the location. In reality probably the best spots to shoot from would be somewhere over at NorthPark, sun by 8 am may not be a problem-don't know if it will be overcast or not still.

Ch 5 said that they were going to broadcast it live on TV tommorrow.

I'm still not sure if I am going to try to shoot it or not, will bring along my 500MM mirrored lens in case I have to set up way out yonder somewhere.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

One tip if you are shooting an implosion. THE DUST CLOUDS from these are HUGE and can make some visually impacting photographs. Winds are calm pretty much this morning so no need to be upwind.

[Davidtxs]

thanks for the tip im off after a stop for a BIG cup of coffee haha


david

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Here it goes!

[blonboy]

Here's a couple of shots and an animation from a different perspective.
....and yes, i need to clean my sensor.





Sorry for the load time / file size.....but its about 7 MB
~blon