The building had stood at the busy corner of Pennsylvania and Lincoln Avenues since 1970, and housed a banking institution as well as commercial offices.

The structure presented an arduous challenge for the general contractor, Design Contracting, Inc. in that all exterior wall panels required removal prior to blasting due to the presence of asbestos. In addition, a large, heavily re-enforced concrete vault was demolished conventionally to allow the main building to collapse into an adjacent parking lot. The completion of these operations left a 350-ton steel shell to be imploded by Demtech.

Blaster Steve Rainwater then faced his own set of challenges, as he discovered that many of the building's steel support columns had been "modified" over the years. The property owner recounted how, back in the mid 70s, the structure would sway back and forth in high winds to the point where workers would become nauseas. In an attempt to mitigate this movement, contractors welded steel plates of varying size and thickness to many column connections and beam-to-column connection joints throughout the structure.

After making several adjustments to their preparatory and blast plans, the Demtech crew wired pre-selected columns with a total of 22 lbs. of RDX linear charges. Wilmington police then established a 600-foot exclusion zone and closed adjacent streets to traffic. Shortly thereafter, a series of twelve distinct explosions brought the building down exactly as planned.

Vibration consultants with Protec Documentation Services reported that all ground vibration and airblast levels fell within predicted levels, and no damage was sustained by adjacent homes and businesses located as close as 55 feet from the blast.