Construction carries on at baseball park

Work on the minor-league baseball stadium in downtown Bowling Green restarted as promised this week. Master developer Alliance Corp. and its subcontractors continued to demolish houses and commercial buildings on the site, preparing to excavate for the 5,700-capacity park. Site preparation work had stopped for a week, five days after its June 18 start. Mary Cohron, chairwoman of the Warren County Downtown Economic Development Authority - the nonprofit, county-created body that oversees the downtown redevelopment project which includes the ballpark - put primary blame for the halt on utility problems. Diggers ran into an unknown gas line on Old Seventh Avenue, and a sewer line on Center Street that serves some buildings which won’t be torn down, she said. Cohron said last week that work should restart Monday or Tuesday, and it did. Rick Brenner, president and minority owner of the team approved to play in Bowling Green, said at the time that he wasn’t concerned by the brief holdup. Though play is expected to start in April, the team will probably arrive only a day or so before the first game, he said.
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