Fireworks Implode Hotel in Albany [WATCH]

When I was walking around Albany last month for my brother's college graduation, I had no idea that the landscape I was looking at wouldn't be the same the next time I visit.

On Saturday, an 11-story building in Albany was demolished to make room for a new convention center. But instead of just imploding the building, demolition crews strapped a bunch of fireworks to the outside and set them off first.

The crew also set up "daytime fireworks" on the roof, which are the kind that let off colored smoke. Then the actual implosion was like the grand finale.

The 80,000-square-foot convention center, dubbed the Albany Capital Center, has been in the planning stages for two decades. Developers say the center will be connected by a pedestrian walkway to two other hotspots: the Empire State Plaza and the Times Union Center,

Watch as the Wellington Hotel Annex disappeared into a cloud of dust: