My suggestion to use a revamped Parade Stadium site for the Millers would certainly cut costs significantly. Plus, it could be owned and operated by the Minneapolis Park Board! Yippee! Every ticket stub benefits the city parks system and in turn, the citizens. And, now we've created a real use for that underground parking ramp replacing the Guthrie.
I cannot imagine using the metrodome for anything else but football. It was not designed with baseball in mind, it will not attract the fanbase who'll support a little Northern League team like the Millers who would shoot for crowds of 3,000 not 30,000. The metrodome would be a spooky hollow place to watch the Saints play the Millers, don't you agree? Besides, being outside is half the point. Sell it to the U of M, I suppose they need a place for Gopher football. Conor WaitePark Emilie Quast wrote: > Other than that, yeah, let's go for it. Maybe owned by citizens on a stockholder >plan? That would be the team the stockholders would own, not a new stadium. (we HAVE >a stadium! It has adjacent parking, will be convenient to rapid transit, already has >hot dog grills...) > > While Conor Donnelly replied: > (snip) Can we > >build a city owned, old style ballpark and fill it to the brim on sunny > >summer days? Of course we can! Maybe we can just use the Parade Stadium > >site, with modest improvements, a perfect central location & beautiful > >views of the downtown skyline. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
