MSA rubble set for new life

MOUNT COMFORT, Ind. -- After Market Square Arena was demolished, about 46,000 tons of crumbled concrete and debris were hauled to a dirt-and-brush back lot for another life. It just happened to be as an outdoor winter park.\nJames Fox, whose company was hired to haul the debris, hopes to open a 700-foot-long, 80-foot-high tubing hill east of Indianapolis in Hancock County by Christmas. Families will be able to rent truck tire inner tubes and glide down the piled hill.\nMSA was the former home of the Indiana Pacers and the last venue where Elvis Presley gave a public concert. Presley died less than two months after the June 26, 1977 performance. The site is now a parking lot.\nFox said he hopes the venture, which will partner with Ski World, will provide income and winter jobs.\n"I'm in the construction and landscaping business, and that usually slows down in the winter anyway. When it slows down, my employees have to have a job," Fox said. "It makes my employees a whole lot happier. And the fact that I might be able to make some money along the way is OK.