[CPEO-BIF] "Demolition underway at Hazel Park [Michigan] Raceway site for new development"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Demolition underway at Hazel Park Raceway site for new development

By Mike McConnell 
Royal Oaks Daily Tribune (MI)
September 17, 2018

The thundering sound of hoof beats at the shuttered Hazel Park Raceway is gone and has given way to the rumble of trucks and bulldozers as workers demolish all the buildings at the former horse track.

Demolition got underway earlier this month and is expected to finish sometime in November, said Hazel Park City Manager Ed Klobucher.

The horse barns are already torn down. The former Clubhouse -- where customers ate, drank, gambled and watched the races for 69 years – is the largest building on the site still standing, but demo work there will start in a couple of weeks.

The raceway closed suddenly April 5 and several weeks later its 95 acres were bought by Ashley Capital.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.dailytribune.com/news/demolition-underway-at-hazel-park-raceway-site-for-new-development/article_5b27f656-baa9-11e8-be41-c310b1f7e461.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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