Bruce Siereveld watched Friday as workers started dismantling a 180-foot monopole, six feet from his property on Woodmont Avenue in Pleasant Ridge.

        It was the end of a four-year fight to get the tower removed.

        Mr. Siereveld was shocked in 1997 when he discovered the monopole was being built, and no one said anything to him.

        He learned about it when a worker knocked on his door and asked if he could trim some bushes in his yard. Workers needed more room to pour concrete for the tower foundation.

        Mr. Siereveld's concern spread through Pleasant Ridge's 9,800 residents. They protested building the tower without getting permission from the community. They argued that the land on which the tower was being built, though within the Pleasant Ridge Business District, was adjacent to a residential area.

        They feared it would decrease property values, and that it did not fit in with buildings in the area. It was 15 feet higher than the tallest building in the community.

        AT&T Wireless built the tower on land leased from the National Jewish Women Council.The company promised the community it would dismantle the tower if it found another suitable location to serve customers in that area.

        The big break came when Cincinnati Bell Wireless, which bought the tower from AT&T Wireless, along with GTE Sprint and Verizon Wireless, agreed to build and share a tower in French Park in Amberley Village, near an old tower that served the Valley Police Band.

        Construction started on the tower in February.

        “The next step is to tear down the fence and shelter,” said Pat Bready, director of government relations for Cincinnati Bell Wireless. “Then the tower will be taken down. The foundation will be cleared and filled in and the ground repaired as we promised.”

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