After 67 years of operation on the bustling Las Vegas Strip, the iconic Tropicana hotel has officially closed its doors. In a planned implosion (captured in a video), the hotel and casino were demolished in the early hours of Wednesday morning, accompanied by an extravagant display of fireworks and drones.
At approximately 2:30 a.m., spectators witnessed an impressive show as 555 synchronized drones formed words such as ‘Tropicana’ and ‘Thank You’ in mid-air.
The demolition process involved bringing down two towering structures, each standing at 22 stories tall with a combined area of over half-a-million square feet. This required over 22,000 feet of detonating cord to be strategically placed throughout both buildings. The Paradise Tower was brought down using explosives loaded into 220 designated cut-points weighing nearly half-a-tonne altogether. Meanwhile, for the Club Tower made primarily out concrete materials, explosives were inserted into more than one thousand boreholes totaling almost two tonnes.
The beloved Tropicana Hotel will now make way for another exciting development -the Oakland Athletics baseball franchise’s proposed $1.5 billion stadium project which is set to open by their first game season in Las Vegas during springtime seven years from now (2028).
