{"id":228552,"date":"2026-04-12T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:57:20","slug":"engineers-to-implode-mandarin-oriental-miami-in-brickell-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228552\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers to implode Mandarin Oriental Miami in Brickell Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM<\/p>\n<p> Brickell Key Bridge closes from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mandarin Oriental on Brickell Key set for implosion after nearly 30 years <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 If all goes as planned, engineers will implode the Mandarin Oriental Miami, a 26-year-old 23-story hotel in Brickell Key, in 20 seconds at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday. Engineers said it will collapse inward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Swire Properties, a real estate developer, worked with BG Group personnel and Miami police officers to close the Brickell Key Bridge, which connects the man-made, triangular-shaped island to Brickell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The bridge will reopen at 1:30 p.m. The deadline for residents to leave Brickell Key was 7 a.m. The BG Group personnel asked residents to keep windows closed and turn off their air conditioning units during the implosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency vehicles were staged at 6:30 a.m. The vibration monitors were installed at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The final setup of barricades and signage to secure the \u201cexclusion zone\u201d on both land and water was at 4 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The implosion will make way for the two-story The Residences at Mandarin Oriental that Swire Properties expects to complete in 2030.<\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM Brickell Key Bridge closes from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mandarin Oriental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-228552","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\/228552","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=228552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}