Construction crews have been bringing down buildings on the Crossroads block for several months, beginning with the Inn at Temple Square and moving toward the southeast. Those buildings and parking structures have come down with crews and heavy machinery knocking them down wall by wall, piece by piece.

The Key Bank tower will be the last building on the block to come down. The Marriott Hotel, Gateway Tower West and the Crandall and McIntyre retail buildings will remain standing on the block.

Deconstruction has yet to begin on the ZCMI block, although it is expected to start soon.

The last building to be imploded in Salt Lake City was the Hotel Newhouse at Main Street and 400 South in June 1983. In August 2000, two smokestacks in Murray were imploded. A collection of buildings and smokestacks at the Geneva Steel in Vineyard were imploded in July 2005. The old Salt Palace had initially been slated for implosion in 1994 until county officials decided to tear it down instead.

The former Beneficial Financial Group tower at 36 S. State St. now bears the name of Key Bank and will be the new site of the bank's corporate headquarters.

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