An empty 16-story building located in downtown Macon, Georgia, will be the center of a New Year’s celebration to ring in 2025.
The former hotel will be blown up on the morning of Jan. 1 at 9 a.m. EST.
“We acquired this property to blow it up,” Macon Mayor Lester Miller said in a press release.
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The hotel was purchased by Macon-Bibb County for $4.5 million in a federal bankruptcy proceeding and the county is willing to spend up to $2.6 million to hire a demolition firm to blow up the building, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
“The way you start your new year is how you spend your entire year, so we’re going big and taking down a blighted building, making way for economic and community development, and bringing people together to remember our past and celebrate our future, all at the same …