The Mobile City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to a $4.367 million contract to demolish the Civic Center and also signed off on revisions to an existing design contract for its replacement.
Under the first contract, Sabre Demolition Corp. will tear down the 60-year-old arena, along with the theater and Expo Hall. City officials said work will start within weeks.
“Major milestone,” Mayor Sandy Stimpson told reporters following the vote “As I think back over the last several years of trying to get to where we are now, I mean the number of questions that we have answered this council, previous council – I mean this has been going on for a while.” The $300 million includes a little more than $1 million to preserve a pair of murals that are in the building. Stimpson said plans call for temporarily housing them in a climate-controlled environment at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center – likely in a place where people can see them – and then installing them in the new arena.
“It won’t be a real theater, but from a dance perspective, I think there are a couple of parts of the new arena and the other rooms that we have where you can actually have, I will say, recital-type dancing,” he said.
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