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Updated December 20, 2020 7:47 a.m. EST
By Indira Eskieva, WRAL Eastern North Carolina reporter
Wilson, N.C. BB&T was founded in Wilson nearly 150 years ago. On Saturday, the town dynamited some of the bank s former administrative offices.
The seven-story structure on Nash Street North includes two buildings, built in 1971 and 1985. Wilson plans to replace them with a YMCA, apartments and a parking deck. Not only is this an implosion of an old building that has outlived its usefulness, but it’s also a wonderful story about the beginning of a new chapter, City Manager Grant Goings said.
Wilson officials planned the implosion for a year and hired demolition group D.H. Griffin to handle it.