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Article: Watt Powell 'borderline slum': ; Renovations needed despite plans to move
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- December 3, 2001
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Tim Bordner, general manager of the Alley Cats, was sitting in
his ballpark office one day when he got a sign from above that Watt
Powell Park is in desperate need of renovations.
A pigeon fell through the decaying ceiling tile.
"It's difficult to run a company under those conditions," said
Bordner, who can now laugh about the incident that almost gave him a
heart attack at the time. "It's embarrassing to bring people into
the place."
Watt Powell Park soon will benefit from more than a quarter of a
million dollars in renovations.
The new Alley Cat owners, Tom Dickson and Sherrie Myers, will put
$80,000 toward office renovations and other improvements. The city
is beginning ...