It was a great day for Trinity, SINA, and the city of Hartford as the start of the Trinity Plaza demolition marked the first step toward completion of the new SINA/Trinity College Community Sports Complex (CSC).  Campus and community leaders gathered on the morning of Friday, August 6, 2004, to celebrate the first blow.  Trinity President James F. Jones, Jr. had the honor of wielding the excavator's claw to start the process of taking down the dilapidated Trinity Plaza.  The demolition will clear the way for site preparation and eventual construction of the CSC. The groundbreaking ceremony has been scheduled for Saturday, November 6, 2004.
 
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Representing the SINA/Trinity partnership that is bringing the CSC to fruition are (l-r) Head Women's Ice Hockey Coach Andy McPhee, Coach Dunham, Hyacinth Yennie P'02, '05, Maple Avenue Revitalization Group coordinator, President Jones, Craig Yennie '05, and Marilyn Rosetti, Hartford Areas Rally Together executive director.		Jimmy Jones (l) and Coach Dunham (r) prepare for the demolition of Trinity Plaza, making way for the new Community Sports Complex.
Coach Dunham, Jimmy Jones, and Head Women's Ice Hockey Coach Andy McPhee		Jimmy Jones maneuvers the demolition claw into place.

Within a week of the ceremonial start, New England Yankee Construction, the company contracted for the demolition, had already taken down half of Trinity Plaza, carefully sorting the material removed from the old structure so that it can be sold or recycled.

A view of the Trinity Plaza demolition from Broad Street.  Iron girders are piled together.		The excavator claw sorts debris.

Within two weeks, Trinity Plaza was almost a memory.

A chimney stands alone on the site's southwest corner.  Soon it, too, is gone.		After a little more than two weeks, all that remains of Trinity Plaza is debris such as this pile of rusty, twisted scrap iron.

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