[font=Times New Roman][size=3]D.H. Griffin will implode the Adam's Mark Hotel [/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Griffin has been preparing the building for Saturday's blast for two months, said Bill Rose, the company's regional manager. [/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]The implosion is anticipated to take place about 7 a.m. To prepare, city officials will close roads and evacuate buildings within 1,000 feet of the hotel.[/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]The 14-story Adam's Mark Hotel is being demolished to make way for luxury condominiums. British developer Taylor Woodrow paid $31.5-million for the Adam's Mark site with its 2.45 acres of prime gulf front. The developer plans to replace the hotel with a West Indies-style project with 113 condos and 78 hotel rooms.[/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Mayor Frank Hibbard is set to push the button (from 1,000 feet away) that will set off the explosions of about 85 linear-shape charges placed on four different floors of the hotel building.[/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]The charges will cut through the steel beams "like a knife through butter" and a controlled implosion should result, Rose said.[/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]It should take about 15 seconds from the time the charges go off until the building is on the ground, he said.[/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Film crews from the History Channel's Modern Marvels program will film the preparation of the explosion to update a sequence they did on implosion technology.[/size][/font]