Spoiler: Details Emerge About Use For Soon-to-Be Imploded Building in ‘The Dark Knight’

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CHICAGO – Following up on my Aug. 14, 2007 report announcing the upcoming building implosion sequence for “The Dark Knight,” I received on Aug. 23, 2007 at 11:09 p.m. yet another confirmation from an independent source who sheds additional light on what it’ll be used for.

Warning: This is spoiler information.

It’s true. Here’s a spoiler.

The [Brach Candy] building will be a Gotham city hospital. Crews are currently and rapidly renovating the western facade (facing Cicero) of the massive, abandoned building.

They are installing fake black windows and a very large, lit up red cross. I could vaguely make out what will surely spell “emergency”.

1:03 a.m. update on 8/24/07: I requested some additional information about these new details from this source. He has given me permission to credit him as “Sam PH”.

I only found out about the building and demolition recently. Here is a photo. Not bad considering the weather.

You can clearly make out the hospital cross. The bright white light on the right of the picture is from the work crew. The three boxes immediately above and to the left of the cross have been fitted with fake windows.

Now here’s something interesting.

On my third drive by, a male nurse or doctor crossed the street. It could have been coincidence or he could have been doing a little filming. I’m betting on the coincidence.

The whole place is much, much bigger than I had anticipated. I’m not quite sure how much they’ll be blowing up. As there aren’t any windows in the place, it could be quite extensive.

By ADAM FENDELMAN Editor-in-Chief HollywoodChicago.com adam@hollywoodchicago.com