By Associated Press - Saturday, May 30, 2020

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A 21-story office tower in downtown Richmond was brought to the ground Saturday in an early morning implosion.

The Dominion Energy Tower came down around 7 a.m. at its One James River Plaza location.

The building, which was completed in 1978, has been vacant since last fall when Dominion moved employees and operations out of that building and into a new 20-floor office tower on East Canal Street in downtown Richmond. That 960,000-square-foot building houses more than 1,200 employees.

A company spokesman says Dominion hasn’t made a final decision on whether to build a second office tower. Plans call for that new building to have 17 floors with a skybridge connecting it to the tower that Dominion just completed.

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