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Article: Property sale won't slow stadium: Ballpark plans can move ahead before Watt Powell is sold
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- October 8, 2002
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Charleston's ballpark proposal no longer depends on the immediate
sale of Watt Powell Park, as City Council eliminated the provision
intended to shield the city's liability in the $23 million project.
The 11th-hour amendment, city officials say, was forced by the
state's slow movement in giving out the project's $12 million
economic development grant, without which the new ballpark and the
Alley Cats are both gone.
Aside from the state grant, the sale of Watt Powell was the only
major obstacle in the path to beginning construction on the new
stadium.
At Monday night's council meeting, it was removed.
Critics say the city could be left with a half-built stadium and
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