{"id":327782,"date":"2026-06-08T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:09:11","slug":"watch-42-year-old-landmark-hotel-imploded-in-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327782\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: 42-year-old landmark hotel imploded in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>The former Sheraton Arlington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/sheraton-arlington-hotel-imploded-to-make-way-for-new-luxury-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was imploded<\/a> Saturday morning before a crowd of onlookers in the city&#8217;s Entertainment District.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Sheraton was built in 1984 to serve attendees at the nearby Arlington Expo Center, which is now known as the Esports Stadium Arlington.\n<\/p>\n<p>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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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":327783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,4892,4890,4891],"class_list":["post-327782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327782","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=327782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}