Raze Memorial Stadium, build baseball park
November 16th, 2009 by John Grooms in Boomer with an Attitude
The latest bad news about Memorial Stadium should – it probably won’t, but it should – move the county to reconsider its stadium and baseball park plans. As we’ve written before, an opportunity to solve two problems at once is at hand. Lots of people want the Charlotte Knights to move to a new ballpark downtown, but lawsuits over the complicated land-swaps proposed to facilitate putting the park in Third Ward — and gripes about using land previously designated for a large uptown park — have kept the Knights in Fort Mill. Meanwhile, the county is sitting on the Memorial Stadium land, the stadium is a wreck, and will cost nearly a million dollars to repair. It was a fine stadium for a long time, and is a great historical relic, but it’s not worth the price it’ll take to fix it. At one point, the county considered using Memorial Stadium’s land for the baseball park, until someone figured out a way for Uptown big wheels to make more money. But the deal cobbled together by Center City Partners is going nowhere, and Memorial Stadium is in limbo. It’s time now to reconsider the Memorial Stadium option for baseball. Now, will someone on the commission please put 2 and 2 together? Maybe county manager Harry Jones could claim he thought of a great way to save the county money and bring baseball downtown, and incidentally save his skin after his recent controversies.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Yea Grooms. Let’s tear down everything that’s not to Your specs. Dude.. You’re off your meds. Serious planners don’t tear down, they build around.. that’s how great cities are built. By leaving what’s there there. Stop trying to Disney-up The Queen and just leave something with roots for the next generation.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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November 17th, 2009 at 10:12 am
This is where we need to take a step back and look at the whole problem again. Just as in health care people are looking to do something, when maybe a better solution would be to do nothing.
Why the big rush to have a baseball stadium to begin with? I do not see or hear of any urgent need for one so maybe we should go back to hear and ask, do we need a baseball stadium this bad? I think the answer is no.
I have solved this problem for everyone. No need to say thank you!
On a side note Grooms says it will cost 1 million to fix the stadium but HOW MUCH will it cost to build a baseball stadium? I bet its way more than 1 million. This is just silly liberal logic Grooms is throwing around.