'bout time!!!
How about on W. Broadway and the River. Broadway Pizza Can charge me $40.00
for a pizza. Tony Jaro's can charge me $6.00 for a "Greeny". Close
access to I-94, River view. Few homeowners to complain (Sorry Fran
Guminga). This will accelerate residential renewal on the river. Connect
it up with the parkways and downtown. Maybe low buck ferry rides from
parking lots on the other side (Northeast) side of the river. Bars on both
sides hit a gusher, Washington Avenue gets an adrenaline shot. This sounds
better with each beer and at bat.
Craig Miller
Former Fultonite
Now living only 25 minutes from the new Broadway Fields, In Rogers MN
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From: Andrew Dresdner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: If the list is finally recovering from yet another bout of
>If the list is finally recovering from yet another bout of "Ballpark
fatigue", I offer this up......
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>As a member of this Ballpark Committee, I bring to the list's attention the
article in today's Strib and a little backgrouond information from last
night.
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82756011
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>At last night's meeting Chuck Ballentine (Planning Director) dropped a bit
of a stunner. Whereas all previous conversations had the ballpark somewhere
downtown, he stated the City may be willing to consider a non-downtown site
for a ballpark. He said no specific sites are under active consideration.
He even said that one way to do this might be for the City will open it up
to the neighbohoods to bid on. Kind of a funny stance to take on something
that has apparently been run out of town three times in the past five years.
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>So, it begs the question, would any neighborhoods outside the downtown
actually embrace a ballpark. Could any neighbohoods actually conceive of a
ballpark as contributing to their neighborhood? If so, what would it look
like? Is this the stupidest idea of all?
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>It seems to me that a critical piece to all of this would of course be a
different mental model of what a ballpark is. Clearly it would not be the
Metrodome. It probably would not even be the so called "industry standard"
as seen in Cleveland, Seattle, Baltimore, Denver, blah, blah, blah. That is
the same old same old. Those could be considered "the Block E's of
Ballparks" or "mall-parks". Chuck said the point is for a "neighborhood
ballpark" to be what the neighbohood wants (thats a novel idea). No one
knows exctly what that means, but I think it would be something more in the
model of Chicago's Wrigley Field, or Boston's Fenway Park.
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>One other critical tidbit, we were told to operate under the assumption
that it would be privately financed.
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>Andrew Dresdner, AICP
>Cuningham Group
>(612) 379-5558
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