{"id":226956,"date":"2026-04-10T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:11:09","slug":"what-to-know-as-brickell-key-hotel-comes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226956\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know as Brickell Key hotel comes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM<\/p>\n<p>Preps underway for Sunday implosionPreps underway for hotel demolition <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The Mandarin Oriental hotel on Miami\u2019s Brickell Key is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/08\/brickell-key-hotel-to-be-leveled-in-controlled-demolition-heres-how-and-when-it-will-go-down\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/08\/brickell-key-hotel-to-be-leveled-in-controlled-demolition-heres-how-and-when-it-will-go-down\/\">set to be demolished<\/a> on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The building is scheduled to come crashing down in a controlled implosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami police say the entrance to Brickell Key will be closed from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police will be in the area, along with Miami Fire Rescue in case of any emergencies and onlookers will be kept back at least 800 feet as the concrete structure is already armed with multiple explosives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe expect that there\u2019s going to be a lot of dust, but these companies have planned vigorously to make sure that this goes on without any harm to the surrounding buildings, to the atmosphere,\u201d Officer Michael Vega, a spokesperson for the Miami Police Department, told Local 10 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The implosion is only slated to last 20 seconds as the building falls in place, all to make room for ultra luxury residences and a hospitality site that will bear the same Mandarin Oriental name. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s slated to stand 66 stories at its highest point. Neighbors are being asked to prepare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBetween eight and maybe nine, that they should not use air conditioning,\u201d Vega said. \u201cMake sure that all their doors are closed, make sure that all their windows are closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Residents are also being advised to be mindful of their pets, who may be scared by the implosion.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Terrell Forney\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM Preps underway for Sunday implosionPreps underway for hotel demolition MIAMI \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-226956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}