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Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick
The stadium is going to terminal 1. Plus the mall just finished a very expensive remodel. I doubt they’ll just demolish it after paying for that
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Malls are malls, I have seen newly renovated malls get torn down shortly after. All renovations are are ways to cause people to shop and spend more money, if the renovation doesn't cause that, then it doesn't matter how much was spent on renovating it.
As for the stadium, until they break ground on the stadium, it can go anywhere. The terminal 1 location is more or less a stop gap site so that they can show they are serious to build this, show off designs of what a stadium would look like there until it comes time to build a stadium, then they will look for the best site for it to go. If there is a mall in the heart of the metro that is dying and is connected to the bulk of the transportation in the city, then the stadium is definitely going in the Lloyd District.
Think of it this way, the waterfront terminal site looks pretty in pictures, but the parking and transportation is a huge issue that would have to be funded by the baseball company, not the city, metro, or state. Building a stadium at the Lloyd Center site would make it much easier to propose the city/metro/state to pick up the cost of running a spur line off of the existing site into the stadium so that it can have gameday trains available and able to leave from the stadium heading out to their routes without it being a huge cost for anyone.
If we get an MLB team, which seems likely because of this pandemic, it will go at the Lloyd Center site.