March 16, 200422 yr Link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8200343.htm Miami-Dade County manager: Marlins should look at stadium sites on the Dade-Broward border BY KARL ROSS kross@herald.com Now that the Florida Marlins have rejected sites for a stadium at the Orange Bowl and the Miami Arena, the team should focus on potential along the ''county-line area,'' Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess said Tuesday. If the team fails to find a suitable site and to complete a stadium financing plan by its new May 1 deadline, the team would almost certainly be forced to consider leaving South Florida, he told county commmissioners. ''It's a business decision I think the team would have to make,'' Burgess said. Commissioners authorized Burgess to continue working with the team through the end of April, but capped the county's financial commitment to the project at $73 million. They also declared an upcoming $2 billion bond issue, to be used for capital works projects, off-limits for a stadium deal. Burgess distributed a memo listing alternative sites within the county, including the Hialeah Race Track, land near Dolphin Mall and further north along Florida's Turnpike in Doral, Northwest 23rd Street in Wynwood, and just south of Pro Player Stadium, the team's present home field. The Marlins declined comment Tuesday about site issues and also about what would happen if the team doesn't have a deal by May 1.
March 16, 200422 yr Link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8200343.htm Miami-Dade County manager: Marlins should look at stadium sites on the Dade-Broward border BY KARL ROSS kross@herald.com Now that the Florida Marlins have rejected sites for a stadium at the Orange Bowl and the Miami Arena, the team should focus on potential along the ''county-line area,'' Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess said Tuesday. If the team fails to find a suitable site and to complete a stadium financing plan by its new May 1 deadline, the team would almost certainly be forced to consider leaving South Florida, he told county commmissioners. ''It's a business decision I think the team would have to make,'' Burgess said. Commissioners authorized Burgess to continue working with the team through the end of April, but capped the county's financial commitment to the project at $73 million. They also declared an upcoming $2 billion bond issue, to be used for capital works projects, off-limits for a stadium deal. Burgess distributed a memo listing alternative sites within the county, including the Hialeah Race Track, land near Dolphin Mall and further north along Florida's Turnpike in Doral, Northwest 23rd Street in Wynwood, and just south of Pro Player Stadium, the team's present home field. The Marlins declined comment Tuesday about site issues and also about what would happen if the team doesn't have a deal by May 1. Hialeah Race Track is one of the sites!
March 16, 200422 yr Build the damn stadium near pro player so we can see if the broward and palm beach fans will actually show up.Don't build it in Wynwood i don't want to get mugged, raped, or asked for maoney on my way to a baseball game! lets build a house for Ariola in wynwood and see if he wants to live there. MIAMI DADE COUNTY COMMISSION FINAL TEAM STANDINGS CROOKS 20-0 :thumbdown PUNKS 15-5 :thumbdown BANDWAGONERS 13-7 :thumbdown THE HONEST FOLK 0-20 :thumbup LEAGUE MVP: ARIOLA :thumbdown HANK GOLDBERG NAMED LEAGUE MOST VALUABLE DUMBASS http://smilies.jeeptalk.org
March 16, 200422 yr Leaving PP Park today, I kept looking at that huge lot of land just south of it and was so pissed at the fact that H.Wayne owns it and knowing that its the perfect spot to put a baseball stadium :mad :
March 16, 200422 yr I drove by the Wynwood site and actually its great but who wants to go to a game there?
March 16, 200422 yr Leaving PP Park today, I kept looking at that huge lot of land just south of it and was so pissed at the fact that H.Wayne owns it and knowing that its the perfect spot to put a baseball stadium :mad : Wayne doesn't own the land PPS is on. It is leased to him by a Dade County run trust which holds the land.
March 16, 200422 yr just get it done, who cares where it is. thats what im saying ... people gotta be all picky ... just get it done PLEASE
March 16, 200422 yr just get it done, who cares where it is. thats what im saying ... people gotta be all picky ... just get it done PLEASE i'm not picky, i just want it done right. All the sites seem pretty reasonable, but PPS, Hialeah Park, and the Dolphin Mall sites are the most viable because of Highway/Future Mass Transit access
March 16, 200422 yr Leaving PP Park today, I kept looking at that huge lot of land just south of it and was so pissed at the fact that H.Wayne owns it and knowing that its the perfect spot to put a baseball stadium? :mad : Wayne doesn't own the land PPS is on. It is leased to him by a Dade County run trust which holds the land. But he does own virtually all the adjoining lots south, east and west of the stadium.
March 16, 200422 yr But he does own virtually all the adjoining lots south, east and west of the stadium. Thats what I meant :mischief2
March 16, 200422 yr i just e-mailed mr sasmson about all of the possibibilties the hialeah site has to offer. hispanic pop, metrorail, huge lot for parking, Hialeah's fiscal status, ..... let's see if he replies. :confused
March 16, 200422 yr i sent an email to samson regarding our tv campaign and i got a response with a contact in the media office and now we have some more radio games so he is listening. He responds to mostly every email personally.
March 16, 200422 yr that's great news that he responds to e-mails Cape, I want to hear what he has to say. Also, the Dolpin Mall site would not be that bad either.
March 16, 200422 yr Codina which built the mall is very close with the Marlins (season tix holders), very close with Gov. Bush and many Republican legislators and very close with politicians in SoFla so they do have some political games to play. Hialeah is the only site with a city attached and the City of Hialeah has the money, voter approval and the land. The rest of the sites are in unincorporated Dade County, that makes them harder to work with.
March 16, 200422 yr a new poll is up at the ballpark news page concerning the new sites, alternating with the previous question of should the park be fair, a hitter's, or pitcher's.
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