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Saga may be over: City grants contract for demolition of The Park, one of Racine's historic theaters


The Park theater s sign, untouched for more than a decade, now reads SAVE ME, visible to drivers on Washington Avenue.
ADAM ROGAN,
RACINE — The City Council voted Tuesday to fund the raze order that will demolish the 1928 historic landmark theater that has been the subject of dispute between the city and locals who want to preserve the building.
The Park has been under a raze order for more than two years.
An effort by Alderman Mollie Jones to delay the raze order by three months was unsuccessful.
Aldermen Jeff Coe, Mollie Jones, Trevor Jung, Jeffrey Peterson, Mary Land and Natalia Taft voted to delay funding the raze order. Alderman Henry Perez was excused from the meeting. ....

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