{"id":327765,"date":"2026-06-08T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:57:08","slug":"watch-42-year-old-landmark-hotel-imploded-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327765\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: 42-year-old landmark hotel imploded in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">June 8 (UPI) &#8212; A 19-story landmark hotel in Arlington, Texas, was demolished to make way for a new luxury resort, and the implosion took less than a minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former Sheraton Arlington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/sheraton-arlington-hotel-imploded-to-make-way-for-new-luxury-resort\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:was imploded;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;was imploded&quot;}\" class=\"link \">was imploded<\/a> Saturday morning before a crowd of onlookers in the city&#8217;s Entertainment District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Sheraton was built in 1984 to serve attendees at the nearby Arlington Expo Center, which is now known as the Esports Stadium Arlington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 311-room hotel was demolished to make way for a new luxury hotel development, Americana by Loews. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/arlington\/article316007282.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:507-room facility will;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;507-room facility will&quot;}\" class=\"link \">507-room facility will<\/a> be Loews&#8217; third property in the Entertainment District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 8 (UPI) &#8212; A 19-story landmark hotel in Arlington, Texas, was demolished to make way for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,117120,117121,27],"class_list":["post-327765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-landmark-hotel","tag-luxury-resort","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}