ROCHESTER - Explosions touched off by a wrecking crew Saturday morning demolished a huge building once used by Eastman Kodak Co. to produce photographic paper.
The 752,000-square-foot Building 9 was one of two outmoded structures the company planned to raze over the weekend at its Rochester campus.
An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people were watching when the structure was reduced to a pile of debris in a cloud of dust just after 8 a.m.
The 487,000-square-foot Building 23 is set to be blown down on Sunday morning.
Photographic paper was made for decades in Building 9, a facility no longer needed after Kodak's shift to digital products.
The company has demolished more than 80 Kodak Park buildings over the past 10 years and expects to have 104 remaining at the end of 2007. There were 212 buildings in the complex as recently as the mid-1990s.
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Information from: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, http://www.democratandchronicle.com
AP-ES-06-30-07 1110EDT
An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people were watching when the structure was reduced to a pile of debris in a cloud of dust just after 8 a.m.
The 487,000-square-foot Building 23 is set to be blown down on Sunday morning.
Photographic paper was made for decades in Building 9, a facility no longer needed after Kodak's shift to digital products.
The company has demolished more than 80 Kodak Park buildings over the past 10 years and expects to have 104 remaining at the end of 2007. There were 212 buildings in the complex as recently as the mid-1990s.
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Information from: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, http://www.democratandchronicle.com
AP-ES-06-30-07 1110EDT
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