The Times' Stephen Nohlgren reported today on prospects and ideas for redeveloping Tropicana Field. Rays' VP Michael Kalt told Pinellas Commissioners in January that they were basically sitting on a goldmine by shackling baseball to the 85-acre piece of land that's "lying fallow."
Nohlgren spoke to business leader and former ABC Coalition member Craig Sher, who was excited about the redevelopment possibilities. And acknowledged - as Mayor Bill Foster confessed recently - that redeveloping in today's economy may not be as easy as the Rays imply.
But one important question remains, as this blog pointed out a month ago: If St. Pete is foolish to house baseball on a piece of downtown land that could be used for other uses, why would Tampa want to do the same thing in its booming downtown?
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Nearly every piece of land could be used for multiple uses. Your argument exposes your ignorance of economics.
ReplyDeleteOr the ignorance of the redevelopment argument?
DeleteIf multi-use (commercial + residential) is better than a baseball stadium in St. Petersburg, why is a baseball stadium better than multi-use in Tampa?
I assure you, there is no shortage of land in St. Petersburg to accommodate the city's growing residential & commercial demands.