Historic but dilapidated, the Westbrook Auto building was taken down Saturday.

In its place will be a landscaped parking lot for the Arkansas Municipal Auditorium, which is being gradually renovated.

“We have been looking forward to this for more than a year now,” said Mark Shoptaw, president of the Arkansas Municipal Auditorium Commission. “Everything went perfect.”

Demolition of the building located on Third Street began at 7 a.m. Saturday morning. The walls mostly crumbled down, and by 10 a.m., the building was laying in heaps of brick as crews began clea...

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