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Originally Posted by TBone7281
I imagine there are a lot more hoops to jump through if you're going to use explosive charges as opposed to plasma cutters.
But that being said, I'm sure it came down to a cost/benefit analysis. There is an awful lot of planning that goes into imploding a building.... I'm thinking that the Civic Arena probably wasn't big or beefy enough to warrant all of that overhead when they can just cut supports and bring down a section "every two weeks" or whatever they estimated.
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Why couldn't they just have consulted Jean Claude Van Dam for the demo work?!
Regarding the Oakland Portal project, if that is supposed to portray Oakland as a big retirement community, then I say "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"
Now where are the people in wheelchairs and walkers to enhance the visual effect?