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VIDEO: Downtown Gainesville bank demolished

The demolition of the old Regions Bank in downtown Gainesville is complete with only a pile of rubble left to be hauled away to make way for a new hotel. - photo by Scott Rogers

06032021 BANK 1.jpg — The demolition of the old Regions Bank in downtown Gainesville is complete with only a pile of rubble left to be hauled away to make way for a new hotel. - photo by Scott Rogers

This iconic Gainesville structure — which opened in 1964 as First National Bank, later became a Regions Bank and then served in recent times as a movie set — is down.