There is another possibility, and this very far-fetched, probably it should categorized as fantasy more than anything else, but if there is the USPS property down there, and the building is very modest, one story sitting on a city block of land, and immediately north of it is a completely vacant lot. Cummulatively I suspect if you could land swap with the Feds and/or provide another downtown site or structure to replace the Post Office, you would have an almost ideal piece of land onwhich to construct a stadium.

 

Because it's just pie in the sky I'm not bothering to research who owns what but it is interesting nonetheless.

This doesn't affect the Marlins directly but it opens up another possibililty:

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sou...-home-headlines

 

This could all be a ploy to get the O's to agree to new terms. Who knows? But if this turns out to push the O's spring training to another site or even out of state, wouldn't this open up the site to the Marlins? I think someone thought up the idea of relocating the Fish to the site of Fort Lauderdale Stadium a few years back but that idea obviously went nowhere. However, in the case that the O's do leave we may have an actual Fort Lauderdale site that the Fish can move to.

 

Hey, Capefish, do you think you could update that Google Earth graphic to include possibly the site of Fort Lauderdale Stadium? I would be very grateful. :thumbup

This doesn't affect the Marlins directly but it opens up another possibililty:

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sou...-home-headlines

 

This could all be a ploy to get the O's to agree to new terms. Who knows? But if this turns out to push the O's spring training to another site or even out of state, wouldn't this open up the site to the Marlins? I think someone thought up the idea of relocating the Fish to the site of Fort Lauderdale Stadium a few years back but that idea obviously went nowhere. However, in the case that the O's do leave we may have an actual Fort Lauderdale site that the Fish can move to.

 

Hey, Capefish, do you think you could update that Google Earth graphic to include possibly the site of Fort Lauderdale Stadium? I would be very grateful. :thumbup

 

There was talk a couple years ago of trying to lure the O's to move their facility to West Palm Beach. We still have the land available near downtown (east of I-95 and south of Okeechobee Blvd) and that is where they were talking about. Because of the ignorance of a former city mayor we lost the Braves and Expos to greener pastures and that ball park is now a Home Depot. But I haven't heard anything about that in some time now.