posted a thread over in the northwest and here's a quote and a link to one of my first explores back in the early 80s alot more of it was there when i was there.
There had been incidents of supposed followers of the band Insane Clown Posse attacking people from the ruins. City of Lakewood feared a lawsuit if someone got hurt for trespassing ... etc.
The ruins came about due to a military training exercise blowing up half the building in the late 1980s. Whether they used explosives or flew over it and unloaded a bomb is a bit of a mystery. It is reported that first responders later used the ruins to train people for work in collapsed building rescues.
Nonetheless it is gone now except for a part of the foundation that is next to a historical information display.
And old images can be found here >.>
http://www.flickr....bot/tags/hillward/