It hasn't been empty this season, but soon Toomer's Corner might look like it did back in the good ole days.
Final design plans and construction dates will be announced Friday, Feb 7 at the Auburn Board of Trustees meeting on the university's Montgomery campus in the Taylor Center at 9:30 a.m.
When the trees were notoriously poisoned in retaliation for the 2010 Iron Bowl, crazed Crimson Tide fan Harvey Updike used enough Spike 80DF to leave the area beneath the trees and much of the downtown intersection severely contaminated.
Phase one of the new design plan calls for clearing out the contaminated soil under the corner and replacing it with new, clean soil.
Phase two calls for reconfiguring the bricks and planters on the corner and rebuilding the traditional entrance gate to the university.
The first phase is set to begin in time for the 2014 football season, followed by phase two the following year.
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