Bidder up for Stadium Wrecking Crew

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized

According to today’s NY Post, the city is bidding demolition crews to tear down Yankee Stadium over the course of about a year beginning in March, 2009. According to the article by the Post’s Jeremy Olshan, the demolition contract is valued at about $27 Million.

“Just as fans have watched the new stadium rise across the street this season, the historic ballpark will shrink a little each day during the 2009 and, perhaps, the 2010 seasons… Parts of the Stadium that can be resold to collectors or reused will be yanked out by the end of May. The rest of the demolition will be completed in the spring of 2010. Aside from obvious memorabilia, such as the 57,000 seats, the city has been coy about which pieces of the Stadium will be salvaged.”

And so The House that Ruth Built is officially scheduled to be dissected piece by piece, with portions of the Stadium to be auctioned off to the highest bidder and the remaining bits destined for the scrap heap.

We only have a few short months left! Sign our petition today and help save Yankee Stadium!