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The last part of Cook Children's Medical Center's $250 million expansion is set to start Sunday morning with a bang. Or more likely, a boom.

At 7:30 a.m. the former Medical Tower building at the northeast corner of Rosedale Street and Eighth Avenue will be imploded to make room for a new office tower and parking garage. The facility will house about 400 administrative employees now in various locations, including Burnett Plaza in downtown Fort Worth.

Cook Children's embarked on its ambitious growth plan in 2009, and in the past year has opened a greatly expanded neonatal intensive care unit, the Dodson Specialty Clinics building and additional patient treatment facilities. Those expansions have added about 540,000 square feet so far.

Planned for the Rosedale site is a five-story, 118,865-square-foot tower and seven-level, 460-place parking garage. It's expected to take several weeks to clear debris from the implosion, which includes recycling concrete and steel, Cook Children's says.

The project is expected to take about a year to complete.