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          PERFECT TIMING: St. Paul officials have "narrowed the
     possible sites" for a new Twins ballpark from five to three.
     Mayor Norm Coleman noted the timing of the announcement, 13
     days before city voters decide whether to approve a sales
     tax increase to help pay for the ballpark: "I think it's
     fair to give people a sense of the vision."  Coleman added:
     "All of these locations provide an opportunity to bring 3
     million visitors downtown" (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 10/21).
          LAST MINUTE: In Raleigh, Ned Glascock reports that
     execs at the new Raleigh arena had hoped to get a temporary
     occupancy permit yesterday, but inspectors "discovered that
     the wrong kind of sprinkler heads had been installed
     throughout the building."  Officials now face a new
     inspection Monday or Tuesday, and if they pass, the permit
     "would come just in time for a hastily arranged open house"
     on October 27.  Hurricanes execs are "anxious about having
     so little time to test the arena's equipment," and the open
     house "will serve as a dry run before the first hockey game"
     on October 29 (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/21).
          NOTES: The Padres and local environmentalists agreed to
     an anti-pollution plan for the team's new ballpark project
     that would remove a "potential roadblock" to the ballpark
     while "laying the framework for measures intended to protect
     urban air quality" (UNION-TRIBUNE, 10/20)....Philadelphia
     City Council member Darrell Clarke, on the Phillies' search
     for a new ballpark site: "They are still trying to give
     Broad and Spring Garden a shot.  They really want this
     thing" (PHILA. INQUIRER, 10/21)....In Detroit, Tina Lam
     reports that 58.2% of the $202M in contracts awarded during
     construction of Comerica Park has been received by minority-
      and women-owned businesses, "nearly twice as much" as the
     30% the Tigers "promised" in their deal with the Detroit/
     Wayne County Stadium Authority (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 10/21). 
        

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