Baseball in The Bottom … again?
Last fall, it was a fiasco that made bad news for the turf-war-fighting mayor at City Hall. That fateful Friday night’s confusion revealed a shocking lack of reason at the heart of the government housed in that building. Today’s news at City Hall was a step or two beyond fiasco, but once again it’s about turf. According […]
Last fall, it was a fiasco that made bad news for the turf-war-fighting mayor at City Hall. That fateful Friday night’s confusion revealed a shocking lack of reason at the heart of the government housed in that building.
Today’s news at City Hall was a step or two beyond fiasco, but once again it’s about turf.
According to a report by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the recently completed Master Plan, calling for professional baseball to continue to be played on the Boulevard, has apparently been blown off. It seems a newer new plan for a baseball stadium to be built in Shockoe Bottom has trumped the Master Plan.
The company chosen by Richmond to develop public property along North Boulevard and in Shockoe Bottom has plans for $785 million in construction in those two areas, including a baseball stadium downtown. Highwoods Properties, in a presentation this afternoon to Richmond City Council, outlined plans for a new, 6,500-seat stadium between East Franklin Street and East Broad Street as part of a proposed $363 million town center in Shockoe Bottom.
Click here to read the entire article at inRich. Click here to read a previous post on this topic at The Hub.
What’s beyond fiasco?
It looks like blithe fantasy is the answer this time. Next time, who knows?
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