Clouds of smoke wafted through downtown Macon, Ga. when a building known as the old Ramada Hotel imploded at 9 a.m. on New Year’s Day of 2025 on First Street and Riverside Drive. This is a view ...

MACON, Ga. — Macon-Bibb County started 2025 with a bang — and a cloud of dust over downtown Macon. Preparation for the downtown Macon hotel implosion started early Wednesday. 13WMAZ's Maggie ...

“It is too costly.” The announcement was met with immediate protest from preservation groups in Macon, but not from businessmen who worked downtown, who saw it as an opportunity to add parking ...

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The long-awaited implosion of the 16-story abandoned downtown Macon hotel happened on New Year’s Day morning. Hundreds gathered in the cold at Coleman Hill Park ...

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.

Days before the Civil War ended in 1865, the man responsible for its culmination, Major General James Wilson of the Union Army, took over Macon from the Confederate Army and briefly established its ...

According to Chief Communications Officer at Macon-Bibb County ... find a developer to build something that will truly move our Downtown forward.” Target Contractors has started planning ...

MACON, Ga. — Downtown Macon has had an eventful start to 2025, and more changes are on the way. Macon-Bibb County will be holding a groundbreaking on Tuesday, Jan. 7, to begin the first phase of ...

Macon, Georgia Mayor Lester Miller pressed the button to demolish the old Ramada Hotel downtown as hundreds watched on from a designated viewing spot. Senate immigration bill aims to overturn ...

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.