The "Dream Track"
The new building was designed by the well known Arthur Froehlich who designed other innovative modern structures. The architectural plans cost $400,000 and the building was proposed at $12,000,000. In the end the new "Dream Track" (as it was nicknamed) cost $20,000,000. (The various tote boards alone cost approximately $800,000.) The new "plant" consisted of five levels with suspended security levels between floors. It boasted a 14-bed hospital with a fully functional operating room, radio and television broadcast rooms and two restaurants run by Harry M. Stevens, Inc. A new synthetic track was constructed and more than 105,000 watts of light lit its homestretch. Closed circuit television of each race was broadcast throughout the grandstand.
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—Harriet Tubman (1821–1913)