Comment 64590

By bigguy1231 (registered) | Posted June 04, 2011 at 22:36:12

I think someone needs a reality check. There is not going to be a stadium district and putting lipstick on this pig that is IWS isn't going to help that neighbourhood one iota. The stadium has been there in it's various forms for 80 years and has done nothing to spur any interest in that neighbourhood, from anyone who has money to spend.

To think that building a smaller facility in a place that nobody wanted to go to previously is going to somehow be a panacea for the area is ridiculous. If there is any future investment in the area it will be public money for public projects to replace facilities bulldozed to build the parking lot for the stadium.

As for the idea that the stadium is somehow historic or in the same league as Fenway or Wrigley, more nonsense. Once the South stand is replaced the oldest part of the place will only be 40 years old. Nothing of the original facility remains now so how are we preserving any history. A plaque at a new park on the site would do just as much to preserve history and cost much less.

Comment edited by bigguy1231 on 2011-06-04 22:37:27

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