MACON, Ga. - When the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve, one Georgia city will welcome the 2025 with a larger-than-average bang. The Macon-Bibb County Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to implode ...

MACON, Ga. — Instead of a New Year's ball drop or fireworks, a building implosion could help ring in 2025 on the corner of Walnut and First Street. For nearly two years, Mayor Miller has hinted at ...

The former Ramada Plaza, pictured here in 2012, as seen from the intersection of Second Street and Walnut Street in Macon, Ga. Grant Blankenship The Telegraph Archives Macon plans to ring in the new ...

The old Ramada hotel in downtown Macon met its end in a cloud of dust and debris on New Year’s Day. The hotel has been a fixture in the Macon skyline, but has perpetually struggled to stay booked.

An old hotel slated for demolition in a central Georgia town was sent collapsing into a cloud of dust and debris on New Year's Day. The old Ramada hotel in Macon had been a fixture of the city's ...

An old hotel in Macon was imploded on New Year's Day by the Macon-Bibb County government after years of being on the city's skyline. The Ramada in downtown was purchased by the government for $4.5 ...

At the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, a new year makes its grand entrance. And when that happens, Macon-Bibb County hopes a downtown building will make a grand exit. County commissioners Tuesday are ...