On Sunday morning, many people wondered what the loud boom they heard in Plano was. <\/p>\n
Crews imploded the former Electronic Data Systems, or EDS, campus to make room for the new 54-acre, $1.3 billion AT&T global headquarters near Plano’s Legacy Wes<\/a>t shopping and dining district.<\/p>\n AT&T’s president announced earlier this year that the headquarters would move from downtown Dallas to Plano<\/a>, where 10,000 employees will work.<\/p>\n “I didn’t think I was going to get emotional,” said Shelley Davis, a former EDS employee. “I got teared up because it’s just a lot to see it all come down.”<\/p>\n She worked for the company for 23 years and appeared in a video from the 1990s, when computers were big, and the camaraderie was even bigger.<\/p>\n “We worked hard. We worked a lot of late hours, so I spent a lot of time in that building,” Davis said. “We did a lot of good for the world about bringing technology.”<\/p>\n A pile of rubble is all that’s left of the building that housed memories for so many people.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s very sad. This was home. This was a family,” said Lisa Halfmann, a former EDS employee. “It’s hard to explain because the culture was so different than any other company. We really were there for each other.”<\/p>\n Also watching the demolition was Judy Schilling, who worked for EDS from 1984 to 2009.<\/p>\n “It’s more to pay our respect to what those floors and doors and everything meant to us, she said. “I was an event planner, so I toured the meeting space before it opened in 93.”<\/p>\n