CDI to drop El Paso City Hall on 14 April.
El Paso City Hall will be demolished at 9am on 14 April to make room for a new $50 million Downtown baseball park.
The demolition of the 10-storey building, which first opened as the city’s headquarters in 1979, is the final step to clear a 5.5-acre site to began constructing a new Triple-A minor league baseball stadium, which is expected to open in 2014. The city began tearing down the Insights El Paso Science Center this week.
City Hall’s demolition will come one day after another landmark – the Asarco smelter smokestacks – will be brought down.
“We actually didn’t want to do it the same day as the smokestacks because it might create a public safety hazard and cause a lot of stress on our public safety officials
Grant MacKay Demolition Co. is handling the $1.5 million demolition, including the Insights museum, but Controlled Demolition Inc. will actually implode City Hall.
