Mahwah landmark hotel demolished

A well-known landmark gone in the blink of an eye

Residents in Mahwah held a celebration for the Sheraton Crossroads Hotel as the building was brought to the ground

Fox 5's Robert Moses shows us why many feel emotional about the loss of this location

As the sun rose on Mahwah, New Jersey, it was about to set on the Sheraton

that for decades served as a landmark. Demolition Day had arrived and the 22-story hotel

which opened in 1986 and closed in 2023, was enjoying its last minutes of existence

1,000 feet away, Caitlin Kelly, who grew up in town, got nostalgic

We go to college and stuff, and coming into town, we see it. It's like, oh, we're home and stuff

So it being gone is definitely going to be like a big loss for us. Still, for all the sadness, this felt like a party

The breakfast sizzled and the beverages flowed. Hundreds gathered to honor a hotel where they and so many others celebrated life's happy occasions

This is part of Malwa lore, Malwa history. But is, was about to become was

Sirens warned that the dynamite charges throughout the hotel were about to do their work

And then at 7.41 a.m. The hotel imploded in a cloud of dust It took four years to build and it took 30 seconds to come down That was the coolest thing I ever saw But Mayor Jim Wysocki felt a strange mix of emotions

Spent a lot of time in that building. You know, parties, birthdays. It's tough to see go

Choked up this morning. Yeah, a little bit. Now that the dust has settled, we've moved much closer

to the demolition site. What was once the tallest building in Mahwah and the site of so many

memories is now just a pile of steel and glass and concrete. It was bittersweet, you know, many

memories there. We had a lot of proms, a lot of weddings there, and, you know, a lot of places

a place where someone can stop before they went on to their next journey. But it was kind of cool

you know, add to the next thing. What is the next thing? Potentially a huge warehouse. This is an

ideal location for one, given that the site sits just a stone's throw from major thoroughfares

including I-287 and Route 17. Developers are in the process of negotiations with hopefully a nice

Fortune 500 company. Even when this site is redeveloped, many will still wax nostalgic for

thoughts of good times had here, whose checkout times will never come

In Mahwah, New Jersey, Robert Moses, Fox 5 News