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Walt Mitchell of Cross Lanes won the chance Friday evening to push the plunger and bring down the historic Building 82 this morning.
"I thought I didn't have a Popsicle's chance on a hot sidewalk," Mitchell said Friday evening after the drawing.
Mitchell's name was the third drawn in the raffle held on Trina Field during a baseball game between the University of Charleston and West Virginia State University.
Chris Belcher, the winner of the original eBay auction to push the button, pulled the names out of a jar with UC President Ed Welch.
The first name drawn was a friend of Belcher's, and Belcher asked for another drawing. The second name pulled was Roger Pritt of Kenna. Pritt, however, declined the offer over the phone, and instead offered the chance to push the button to Belcher, who declined in turn.
"The drama will continue for a bit," Welch joked.
With no one willing to push the plunger, Belcher pulled another name for the drawing: Mitchell's.
"We're just tickled to death," Mitchell said.
He planned to bring his family and his 12-year-old granddaughter to the implosion, scheduled for 8:56 a.m. today.
"I'll be there about 7:30," he said, "so I don't miss something."
UC sold 498 tickets in the latest raffle, raising $4,980 for the university's baseball team.
The school auctioned off the chance to push the plunger earlier this month on eBay. Belcher, a former UC baseball player, placed the winning bid of $5,207, but then turned the ticket back over to the university to raffle off.
"The opportunity was there," Belcher said. "I won the auction and, instead of being the one to push the button, I decided to donate the ticket to the baseball program."
UC is paying about $1.6 million to demolish the 106,000-square-foot building in South Charleston.
School officials initially planned to convert the building into classrooms, faculty office space and living quarters for pharmacy students. That plan was dropped when UC determined that it would cost up to $10 million to bring the building up to Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
The property is for sale and is priced at about $3.5 million.
Reach Veronica Nett at veronican@wvgazette.com
or 304-348-5113.
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