WATCH: Failed demolition of Vegas hotel leaves elevator shaft standing

ABOVE Implosion incomplete – an attempted demolition at a Vegas hotel doesn’t manage to topple the building’s elevator shaft

LAS VEGAS – An elevator shaft withstood a more than 2-ton explosive punch meant to implode a Las Vegas hotel, and crews now are planning a little more work to finish the job.

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Most of the 12-story Clarion casino-hotel crumbled in a pre-dawn Tuesday demolition designed to clear the off-Strip site for new construction.

But despite the detonation of 4,400 pounds of explosives, the elevator core just dropped about four stories and remained leaning a bit to one side.

Property owner and developer Lorenzo Doumani says the shaft still has a ways to go.

The 200-room casino-hotel opened in 1970 as the Royal Inn. It was known over the years as the Debbie Reynolds – for its one-time owner – as well as the Greek Isles and the Paddle Wheel.