Pieces of Cinergy Field's history will go on sale this month when O'Rourke Wrecking Co. holds a stadium memorabilia sale — Oct. 19-20 and again Oct. 26-27. Fans can buy seats, clumps of infield dirt, slices of artificial turf, stadium signs, lockers, foul poles and, yes, bathroom fixtures taken from the 32-year-old stadium.

        The sales will be held at the company's office, 660 Lunken Park Drive, across from Lunken Airport. They will start at 8 a.m. and finish at 3 p.m. each day.

        O'Rourke is a Cincinnati-based company hired to demolish Cinergy Field. Mike Sieving, construction executive for Hamilton County, said O'Rourke was able to reduce its bid for the project to $5.7 million by figuring in profit from the sale of the memorabilia. And they also relieved the county of a major headache, he said.

        “The county would have had to decide to get into the seat auction business,” Mr. Sieving said. “We would have to auction seats. So there's not only the cost of getting them out of the stadium and stored, but the auctioneer gets part of the revenue. At 10 bucks a seat for handling, plus the auctioneer costs, we'd have to realize more than $700,000 just to break even.”

        It will be much easier for O'Rourke, which, unlike a governmental body, can just set the price for each item. Some items have been priced.

        Seats will be $35 each, with a minimum purchase of four. The seats are mounted to concrete risers in the stadium and will not stand upright on their own. O'Rourke also will make available seat brackets to support the seats for $25 each, with a minimum of five needed to support four seats.

        A 12-inch square souvenir of turf will be $15; a doormat of turf $30. Larger quantities of the turf will cost $3 per square foot.

        Other items, such as the lockers and urinals, aren't yet priced and will have to be special-ordered on the day of the sale.

        Jackie Schurger, executive vice president for O'Rourke, said the company has received more than 2,000 inquiries about buying Cinergy stuff.

        All except special-order merchandise must be paid for and hauled away the day of the sale.

        Ms. Schurger said a lot of research went into the idea before O'Rourke decided to sell the merchandise.

        “We had an idea of what would be hot based on what went on in Atlanta and Milwaukee,” Ms. Schurger said. “We have a real positive feeling that all of the seats will sell. We sure don't want to keep any. We're not building a new stadium.”

        Seats are one thing, but urinals?

        “I guess if you're remodeling, or whatever,” Ms. Schurger said.

        Construction managers still have not decided whether to allow O'Rourke to implode Cinergy Field with nitroglycerin. That decision will likely be made by the end of the week.

        For information on the sale, go to www.orourkewrecking.com.

        E-mail dklepal@enquirer.com

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