The old convention center is coming down bit by bit. Apparently, it takes as long to take a building down as it did to put it up in the first place. They used explosives to blow part of it down before Christmas 2004 and they're still, after Easter 2004, taking the rest of it down. It was big. It was Ugly. The new one, a few blocks away, is bigger. And not so Ugly. The old one is almost gone now. Daylight shines through a lot of it. They have machines to grind up the concrete parts. Other machines process the metal pieces. The site will become a parking lot until they can figure out what to put up in its place. Before the site was a convention center, it used to be housing, but no one really lived there for quite a while. So, a parking lot, in some strange way, sounds like a step in a positive direction.

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