Now that the city has won their bond validation suit, it can truly move forward with plans for the Triple A baseball stadium without the looming fear that several lawsuits could have delayed everything.

City employees have been busy packing up their offices and moving out of City Hall, about 45 percent have already relocated.

"We are vacating the building as we speak," said Wilson.

Now the city can turn its energy toward planning and preparing for the demolition and construction of the stadium.

"At this point I think the direction was pretty straightforward yesterday that it's a legal project. That the elections in November were appropriate and legal so we have the authority to move forward and build the stadium," said Wilson.

Wilson said the goal is to have everyone out of the building by the end of March with the implosion occurring in the beginning of April. Wilson said possibly between April 7 and 14.

Tuesday, City Council will decide whether or not to put the petitions considered at the bond hearing, on the May ballot.

"Hopefully, those who've opposed the project will embrace that the project is going to move on. The voters did vote and they had their due process in court. The city and the citizens prevailed and the project is going to go forward," said Wilson.

But for some of the petitioners, it isn't quite over yet.

Activist Carl Starr said they have a few options they are exploring, including a new trial, a process called findings of fact and conclusion of law or possible other grounds for a case or appeal.

Starr said in reading over Texas local government code that addresses the Hotel Occupancy tax, he believes any increase to the HOT rate for a venue project must go to a venue where a majority of visitors are tourists. He doesn't believe that's the case with the baseball stadium.

"How do they expect to meet that? They're not going to," said Starr.

He said he brought he point up in Austin and didn't get much of a response except one attorney told him the November HOT rate vote supersedes his argument.

"They are saying it was superseded because there was an election but that's just very weak to me and so that could be an appellate issue," said Starr.

Starr admitted, even if people do get to vote on saving city hall, he doesn't think the outcome would be any different.

"In my personal opinion, no. I can't speak to an outcome that's unknown," said Starr.

Wilson said any new actions brought forth will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

But the city has plenty of other preparations to keep them busy.

"If you go outside and look around the streets are being torn up and they are running cable and relocating our fiber so there is a lot of preparatory work that is being done right now as we speak," said Wilson.

The city is bringing in an experienced demolition team and the process at City Hall will be an implosion, meaning it will be self-contained.

Wilson said the city has already done a vibration analysis because of the railroad. It's also possible they will need to close part of 1-10 for a period of time during the implosion.

"You're really demolishing a city block or a city block and a half to really make something substantial happen in downtown," said Wilson.

The city will also start selling the bonds and issuing the debt in April.

"Typically, we either have a public auction in the public bond market place or we do a private placement. I'm not sure which one we will take at this point but it will be one of those two," said Wilson.

It will be awhile before all of the City Hall employees are back together again.

About half of the city's departments will be in temporary facilities until October or November split between the Tillman Center on south Florence Street and the O'Rourke Center on Montana.

The main administration is moving into the Times building, which will be its permanent home.

The one-stop shop will be located at 811 Texas.

The two buildings the city purchased, the Luther building and 801 Texas, are in the beginning phases of renovations and just finishing up design. Wilson estimates it will be a five to eight month process.

But hopefully, "By the end of the calendar year, everyone will be in their permanent locations," said Wilson.

Wilson said the city campus will have plenty of parking and be more accessible to the public.

"It's going to be a really nice looking campus. It's going to be a very exciting campus for city operations and should be very convenient for the public because you can go where you need to go," said Wilson.

In a year's time instead of demolition preparations at the City Hall site, it will be a Triple A baseball team in spring training mode.