The whole idea goes down the tubes when you talk roof. We have paid with
our eternal baseball souls for playing indoors. Never again.
Craig Miller
Rogers MN
Former Northsider To.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McGerik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: Ballpark at W. Broadway and the River
>Craig Miller wrote:
>
>> '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.
>
>Wow! What a great place and great idea! I drive past that location on
>a daily basis (I live in north Minneapolis) and it seems to be mostly
>industrial scrapyards with a few abandoned buildings and lots. I
>believe a ballpark at that location would be a great way to revitalize
>that area and bring a wonderful amenity to north Minneapolis.
>
>For ballpark designs, maybe the park could be situated so that the
>river would be beyond center field so that many of the spectators
>could look out onto the river or maybe orient the park so that the
>spectators could look onto downtown. Also, I would like to see a park
>built with a retractable roof. The roof would be kept open during good
>weather and closed during rainy weather. I heard of a stadium with a
>retractable roof, which when closed, sat above the stadium, somewhat
>like an umbrella, so that even when the roof was closed, spectators
>could still see outside and did not have a closed in feeling like they
>do with the Metrodome. (I hope I am making sense with my description).
>
>What do I have to do to get the ballpark built there?
>
>Scott McGerik
>Ward 3
>Hawthorne
>Minneapolis
>www.visi.com/~scottlm/
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