Is new stadium study silly or outrageous?
OK, some things have changed since September. But for Mayor Jones’s new administration to hire the same consultants as his predecessor did, to study the same basic issues looks strange. Writing for the Richmond Times Dispatch, Michael Martz The same firms hired by Richmond to analyze a proposed $363 million development, including a new baseball […]
OK, some things have changed since September. But for Mayor Jones’s new administration to hire the same consultants as his predecessor did, to study the same basic issues looks strange.
Writing for the Richmond Times Dispatch, Michael Martz
The same firms hired by Richmond to analyze a proposed $363 million development, including a new baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom, already endorsed the concept in a study produced for the city six months ago.
The new, $100,000 study would be conducted by Davenport & Co. of Richmond, Economic Research Associates of Washington, and Chmura Economics & Analytics of Richmond. Those three firms delivered a report to the city in September that recommended Shockoe Bottom as a preferable site for a new stadium, rather than building a new ballpark on North Boulevard or substantially refurbishing The Diamond there.
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