Old Cap Centre Comes Tumbling Down

LANDOVER, MD-A bevy of onlookers waved good-bye yesterday to the US Airways Arena–also once known as the Capital Centre–as the cleared out shell of a structure was imploded in preparation for the development of the $85 million mixed-use sports and entertainment facility to be called Boulevard at the Capital Centre.

“We spent about two and a half weeks drilling about 500 holes,” Controlled Demolition Inc. president Mark Loizeaux said on a television news report yesterday. “But after a test blast, we found that we only need about 355 pounds of explosives placed in those 500 holes, connected them all up with blasting caps, and basically just let gravity take over bringing the structure down.”