New baseball stadium in The Bottom? No way!

At SLANTblog there’s a post on baseball as a local political issue. Lately, when I hear somebody talking about building a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom, I laugh. You see, I’m past the point of arguing that it’s a terrible location and that too many of what were R-Braves fans — the Little Leaguers in the […]

December 9, 2008; 1:20 PM • by FTRea

At SLANTblog there’s a post on baseball as a local political issue.

Lately, when I hear somebody talking about building a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom, I laugh. You see, I’m past the point of arguing that it’s a terrible location and that too many of what were R-Braves fans — the Little Leaguers in the uniforms, church groups, veterans in wheelchairs, parents with their children, etc. — won’t go to that neighborhood after dark, in sufficient numbers to make it work.

Now the reason not to build is more obvious and less debatable. No one in their right mind would prop up a zillion dollar development on anticipated revenues from shops around a baseball stadium. That concept isn’t working in DeeCee and other cities that have hitched their wagons to that star.

Click here to read “Baseball in Richmond moving to the back burner” at SALNTblog.

Update: There are more comments under the SLANTblog post than here.