Sunday, July 19, 2009
Baseball Stadium in Homestead: Can this serve as a Forecast of the Marlins' Future? By Geniusofdespair
Why does everyone in government get behind stadiums with our tax dollars? Did we not just tear down two of them...Miami Arena and the Orange Bowl? This is another $22 million boondoggle, more of our tax dollars down the drain.
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Thanks. I live near the pink elephant. The Marlins' owners should be making pilgrimages to Joe Robbie's grave and learn about his methods of building a stadium. NO PUBLIC MONEY.
What happened to the charter school that wanted to use part of the property?
This story is so typically Homestead; nothing is done with any brains.
Would the commercial airport have met the same fate? You bet. Thank heavens it was defeated. Homestead must love their pink elephants because they keep buying them. How about main street? And the re-do of the old theater? Downtown has been killed by sprawl. Think the busway is going to save them? Nope.
MIAMI’S LEAST WANTED! Noticeably absent from the Marlines Stadium group groundbreaking photo are all those MDC Commissioners and City of Miami Commissioners that voted against this Marlins deal including Tomas Regalado and Marc Sarnoff. Also absent are all the many thousands of citizens that where denied the right to vote on this ill-conceived project that heavily favors the Marlins interest, that we can not afford, do not need and do not desire. This photo will be most useful when the time comes to round up the “Usual Suspects” that have once again favored special interest groups over the needs of our citizens.
Harry Emilio Gottlieb
This groundbreaking was a loser event...
We need to remember this when its time to vote.
I was at a fundraiser and heard Regalado say he would take back the deal and turn the Orange Bowl into a park. That is what we need, real leaders, not special intrests!
No politician ever paid any kind of price for the Homestead baseball stadium dud/disaster... the one who should have, Steve Shiver, is up running a roller coaster in North Carolina. Good riddance.
While there has been plenty of well-justified outrage about the cost of building the ballpark for Jeff Loria, I haven't seen any discussion about the cost of cooling the thing on those toasty August afternoons when the monsoons drift in from Miccosukee and they have to close the lid. Especially when the a/c system will have to quickly dump all that latent heat in the ball field top soil, not to mention the body heat from the fans. Plus, all those little Havana neighbors are gonna love that fact that any heat that gets sucked out of the stadium get dumped directly into their neighborhood.
Warm Up -I was thinking the same thing: How much could it cost to AC it....where is FP&L when you need an answer?
Atomic A/C
where is FP&L when you need an answer?
didn't the city manager live in the stadium at one point? I heard shiver and the manager had some wild personal events out there.
The new stadium is not close enough for the glow from Turkey Point to help save on lighting.
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They will tear it down because they can't come up with the money to maintain it.
Then they will sell the land. At a fire sale. Like so many other parcels of city land.
This stadium being financed by tourist dollars was a real amazing grab of money by their city manager. He actually read the law and snatched $$$ from that pesty Miami Beach.
I have always loved that little stadium in Homestead. Personally, I thought that the county should made the Marlins the deal that if they played there and actually out grew the stadium, then we could talk about public funding of a large facility. The elected officials would have made a whole bunch of voters happy.
The county had the opportunity to make it a regional county park. They could have renovated and polished that stadium up and popped on an inflatable dome with the tourism dollars. Then we could have seen what the Marlins were capable of doing about an audience.
The charter high school never made it, but the charter school across the street loves the stadium.
The current charter school to the west of the complex was another thoughtful city planning design. It does not have enough car space to stack the traffic safely on a main road during school hours.
The stadium parking lot provides the existing school with the space for stacking lanes and turn around for the school parents and their cars.
Yay.
The stadium is toast. The stadium should be quickly knocked down like the tennis stadium in Miami Beach. No questions arise as to how a city lets its property deteriorate. Common tactic for govs to just remove things. Surprised YouTube video hasn't been taken down. Nice to see these cities could maintain property during the second greatest real estate boom in history. All our tax money went into pensions and salaries which are locked in by labor union contracts. Good luck South Florida.
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