People who want to save Eugene's historic baseball park are making a last ditch effort. They're raising money in hopes to convince city leaders to purchase Civic Stadium.
The goal is to raise 1 point 2 million dollars. The money would go toward purchase and restoration of the 10 acre site in South Eugene. Friends of Civic Stadium wants to preserve the playing field and 75 year old wooden grandstand. The non-profit has been fighting to preserve Civic for years. Dennis Hebert is president of the organization.
Hebert: "This is a big push right now. We know it's the 11th hour kind of thing, bottom of the 9th. But what this would do would show everyone that the community is in support of wanting to save the stadium and use it as a venue for the future."
The money raised would go into an ESCROW account and be refunded to donors if Civic is demolished.
The Eugene City Council has tabled discussion of whether to make a bid for Civic. It's owned by Eugene 4J School District. The bids it's gotten so far are from Eugene YMCA and a developer who wants to put a Fred Meyer there.
A kickoff event for the Save Civic fundraiser is planned for Wednesday evening at Tsunami Books in Eugene.
