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But seriously, are there any actual chances of an MLB team? |
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Jared Cowley, KGW 11:15 AM. PDT September 21, 2017 http://www.kgw.com/sports/mlb/portla...says/477597839 Quote:
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The league is using Portland to extort Oakland and Tampa into ponying up money to pay for new stadiums.
We are only a serious contender if we agree to spend 100's of millions of dollars on a new ballpark. I enjoy baseball. And I would love to watch an MLB game in Portland. But billionaire owners need to pay for their own fucking stadiums. |
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Also, Portland still has $150 million set aside for a new baseball stadium thanks to Mayor Vera Katz over a decade ago to secure funds with Oregon to help finance a stadium. From what I hear, that would still apply today. |
Wow, the timing of that article is eerie/weirdly coincidental.
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If I am going to pay for an entertainment event (sports,music or otherwise) I expect to be directly entertained by that event. But if sitting in hard seats for three hours watching a bunch of grown men stand around in a field while washing down some greasy popcorn with a $10 miller is how some people want to spend time with their friends... more power to them. It's just not for me personally. |
^ LOL, yeah. Well, I like the flow of a game, how it can go slowly and then suddenly get really intense. I have a similar feeling about soccer as you do about baseball, but evidently that's not how most of Portland feels about it given the Timbers Army and the planned expansion...
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Albina Vision presentation [34 MB] to the Design Commission.
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I see the grain elevators along the river are still in place in that photo. I would think that any comprehensive design for that neighborhood would look at moving them further downriver and activating the riverfront as well. Given the fact that it is prime real estate the business case should be pretty darned good.
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Here is an article from 2016, which notes a $12M expansion to the elevator in 2012: https://fadedportland.wordpress.com/...ter-area-1977/ |
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It always seems so bizarre to me when abstract proposals like this woo people. Everyone has their own vision of how it might be to walk around. Imagine sitting down and looking at a newspaper in the 1960s. Here is what you would see: The New Minnesota Freeway! We now know what it is like walking/living there. It is awful. In the joint proposal the intersection of Broadway and Vancouver still has 6 lanes. There will be an equal or greater amount people driving through the neighborhood from the freeway. Both current and future Broadways are equally intolerable. What would actually improve the neighborhood, make it walkable, equitable, diverse, safe? Slide 21: a 10 block cap of I-5 absent of any on and off ramps? |
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Even if they do ever fall into disuse I'd still advocate for keeping them and doing something like Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. |
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