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A scheduled (January 3, 2012) foreclosure auction was averted due to a
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The ballpark sits on land bounded by a parking lot and then North
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had the right to foreclose on the field and some of the adjacent acreage, the bank did not decide to immediately exercise that right. Former owner Bell also owed over $ 195,000
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