Tuesday, February 17, 2015

SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL UPDATE: DONE DEAL?


SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL UPDATE: DONE DEAL?

It is time once again for an update on one of my favorite subjects these days, the proposed new spring training baseball stadium. It is also time for the 2 for 1 blog, and you will see that these articles go together like peanut butter and jelly. In the first, it is announced that the City of West Palm and the County are in talks to finally agree to the land swap that would allow for the new stadium to be built, partly as a result of the competing developer dropping their interest in the site. They said that they were at least 90 days away from making an announcement on a deal but that negotiations were taking place and going well. None of this is new information. This article appeared on January 6th 2015. In the 2nd article which appeared January 21, 2015, it sounds as if it is a done deal. The headline is that the teams may consider having some of their minor league affiliates play there, which would mean baseball played there for 8 months of the year. This decision would need approval from the existing teams here. Call me crazy but this is a big leap from whether or not the stadium will be built at all! But there is much more. They also announced that the teams have chosen their respective sides of the site and that the park will be surrounded by a 1.75 mile jogging track. The article closes with the fact that only the vote on the land swap is the only thing standing in the way of building the stadium, and that they hope to break ground this spring so that it will be ready for spring training in 2017. The final paragraph has an excellent quote from Daniel Martell, who is president of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, to the commission, “Thank you for saving Major League Baseball.” I would say things sound pretty promising here! Stay tuned, they are going to have to have the vote eventually. As always thanks for reading and have a great day.

West Palm Beach, county to cooperate on baseball land swap



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