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Demolition work has finally begun on Cooper Stadium, starting the transformation of Columbus venerable home of minor league baseball into a race track.

Crews today are tearing down a building behind the grandstand along the first base line.

A pile of concrete blocks and other rubble sit behind the stadium, exposing what had been a mens restroom. Piles of metal lay across the reserved seats behind home plate.

Plans call for the grandstand along the first-base line to be torn down as Arshot Investment Corp. converts the stadium into a race track, part of the $40 million Sports Pavilion and Automotive Research Complex, or SPARC.

About 8,500 seats will remain.

Demolition will continue through spring, then construction will begin on the track and the adjacent automotive research and technology building. The project is scheduled to open by fall 2015, said Arshot spokeswoman Lisa Griffin.

The site was Columbus home of minor league baseball beginning on June 3, 1932, when Red Bird Stadium was dedicated. The Columbus Red Birds were the St. Louis Cardinals top farm team, playing in the American Association. It was one of the first stadiums with permanent lights.

The Red Birds were moved to Omaha, Neb., after the 1954 season. Harold Cooper, a minor league baseball executive who once served as a clubhouse boy at Red Bird Stadium, worked with local businessmen to bring the Ottawa team in the International League here for the 1955 season.

The Columbus team was named the Jets and the stadium renamed Jet Stadium.

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Resuming demolition drive in full swing after the Lok Sabha polls in the Capital, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has pulled down portions of over 50 illegally built properties and served notices to about 300 more, an NDMC official said today.

"We have served notices to about 300 properties as part of a demolition drive and knocked down illegal constructions in 52 properties," NDMC Public Relations Officer Yogendra Singh Mann said.

The maximum work has been carried out in the Sadar Paharganj Zone with over 30 demolitions and one sealing of property, followed by Rohini Zone with 12 demolitions and a sealing. City Zone faced six demolitions, the NDMC said.

Mann said though demolition is an ongoing procedure at the municipal body but due to elections, shortage of forces and the Model Code of Conduct, very few demolition work can be effected.

"Due to polls, forces needed for demolition are otherwise deployed on election duty and hence the work cannot be carried on as we do it in normal time," he said.

The official also informed about demolition work carried out in Wazirpur Industrial Area a few days back.

Areas in SP Zone include Pahar Ganj, East Moti Bagh Lahori Market, Farash Khana, among other places.

In City Zone, demolitions were carried out at Ajmeri Gate, Chandani Chowk, Darya Ganj and Rohini Zone, while illegal constructions were removed in Pitam Pura, Pashim Vihar, Shalimar Bagh among others.

A portion of a school in Pashim Vihar was also sealed.

The NDMC and the East Delhi corporation is also carrying out the routine Monsoon survey on conditions of building, said Mann, who is also the PRO for EDMC.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Demolition work is underway at the old Cooper Stadium site on the southwest side of Columbus. Workers are expected to preserve the grandstand, but knock down other parts of the stadium to make way for construction of a new race track and automotive research center.

The Columbus Clippers played their last baseball game at Cooper Stadium in September 2008 before moving into the team's current facility, Huntington Park, in the city's Arena District.

After years of planning and debate, the developer of the Cooper Stadium site, ARSHOT, is moving forward with plans for the race track, research center and sports pavilion.

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At the Olde Tyme Barber Shop in the nearby Central Point Shopping Center, barber Ed Markson says residents could use something to breath new life into the neighborhood. "That'll be really, really nice and will put a lot of people through this are to work," Markson said. "Even the shopping center here will build back up a little bit. We went through a lot of hard times here."

West side resident Bertie Crockett and her daughter in law Deanna Sheets are excited as race fans but also see the chance for some positive fallout for the local economy. "It'd be nice to we Central Point come back - I think it would be great for the economy," Sheets said.

The new facility is expected to support about 300 new jobs. Construction is slated to begin later in 2014.

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NORMANDY University of Missouri-St. Louis officials have listened to neighborhood residents and preservationists who want to spare Incarnate Word Convent from demolition and offered at least a temporary reprieve for the former home of the Sisters of Charity.

Bob Samples, UMSLs associate vice chancellor for communications, said Wednesday that university officials met Monday night with residents and representatives from Incarnate Word Academy.

We indicated to them we would hold off on demolition of the old convent site and issue a request for proposals to see if individuals are interested in renovating the facility and putting it to a positive use, Samples said. We don't have a time frame for the RFP but we're working on it.

The RFP would stipulate that the buildings would have to be saved, he said.

The Sisters of Charity sold the convent to UMSL for $1.2 million in 1993, and after some years of use by the university, UMSL officials say the school no longer needs the buildings.

Dan Riley, of Bel-Nor, who started a petition drive and Facebook campaign to save it, said the community's response has been overwhelming in support of the convent.

Riley said he intends to turn over a petition with more than 1,000 names to Chancellor Thomas F. George on Thursday. On Facebook, supporters have gathered over 1,300 likes.

It's a crucial moment in our community's efforts to save these important pieces of St. Louis history and architecture and it will be the first opportunity for Chancellor George to explain the university's position and respond to the community's petition, Riley said.

The petition says the facility has been a source of pride for the Bel-Nor and Normandy communities.

The convent is an excellent example of American craftsmanship, masonry and metalwork from the early 20th century with architectural characteristics from 11th and 12th century southern France, Spain and Italy, the petition states.

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Demolition begins at the Masonic Hall in Portishead

Tracey Fowler , Reporter Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:00 PM

THOUSANDS of bricks from an old Portishead building will be recycled to provide a new beach wall.

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Demolition of the former Masonic Hall in Pier Road is well under way in preparation for the building of a new lifeboat station.

Contractor Andrew Scott has already completed internal demolition work and has started the bigger job of demolishing the main structure. About 3,000 bricks will be recycled on site to form a new wall access to the Royal beach.

Gavin Evans, project manager, said: We are very much aware of our neighbours and are intent on causing as little impact as possible on the local community during the work.

We now look forward to the challenge of constructing an excellent facility for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) here in Portishead.

The RNLI is building the new lifeboat station ahead of a formal adoption of The Portishead Lifeboat Trust. The charitys trustees agreed the adoption on the condition that a new home fit for purpose was in place for the lifeboat.

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