{"id":1013700,"date":"2022-03-07T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/07\/watch-unfinished-building-imploded-after-15-years-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:49:21","slug":"watch-unfinished-building-imploded-after-15-years-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/07\/watch-unfinished-building-imploded-after-15-years-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Unfinished building imploded after 15 years in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unfinished-building-imploded-after-15-years-in-Florida.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LIVust_0ltI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s next for Jacksonville&#039;s riverfront after Berkman II demolition?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIVust_0ltI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 7 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A partially completed building that sat abandoned in a Florida city&#8217;s downtown for 15 years was imploded after multiple delays.<\/p>\n<p>The Berkman Plaza II building, which was not completed before construction was halted in 2007, became known as downtown Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;eyesore&#8221; when it remained a part of the landscape for 15 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville officials said the process of having the building demolished was beset with delays, with one date, Jan. 8, already canceled this year.<\/p>\n<p>The building was finally brought down with an implosion at 10 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally! I&#8217;ve been working on this since my first year in office and it&#8217;s been hurdle after hurdle after hurdle. But it&#8217;s done and now we can move on,&#8221; Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said after the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>A developer is reportedly planning to replace the unfinished structure with a new skyscraper planned to be Jacksonville&#8217;s tallest.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 7 (UPI) &#8212; A partially completed building that sat abandoned in a Florida city&#8217;s downtown for 15 years was imploded after multiple delays. The Berkman Plaza II building, which was not completed before construction was halted in 2007, became known as downtown Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;eyesore&#8221; when it remained a part of the landscape for 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}