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Bond sale for new Marlins stadium comes up short – team picks up $6M shortfall

kings33 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:10:03 +0000

Miami is getting closer to breaking ground on a new park for the Florida Marlins, according to MiamiHerald.com. Last night, the sale of bonds to finance construction came up ovber $6 million short of the goal, and the Marlins agreed to pick up the difference.

Groundbreaking is scheduled for later this week, and the park is expected to open in 2012 with 37,000 seats and a retractable roof.

Charlotte Knights Stadium Fiasco Takes a New Turn

kings33 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:14:30 +0000

The Charlotte Knights have been negotiating for years to move from their Fort Mill, SC home to a downtown ballpark proposed in Charlotte’s center city. It appears the town of Fort Mill is getting a little tired of playing the bridesmaid, and is now refusing to continue year-to-year leasing of the current facility to the Knights.

According to the Charlotte Observer, the stadium authority is now pressing for a new 3 year lease agreement with the team, which would potentially delay any consideration of a downtown move until the middle of the next decade.

the holdup at this point has been a single lawyer, Jerry Reese, who has filed motion after injunction against the city of Charlotte over the placement of the new stadium on the site of some land acquired in a convoluted land-swap agreement a few years ago. While his arguments have some merit in regards to the original intent for land use in the swap, the ulterior motive has clearly been an effort to put the stadium on land owned and controlled by Mr. Reese a few miles north of the proposed site as the anchor to a larger development project.

Mr. Reese has been a proponent of a major league park, but by most accounts, the city and surrounding region remain 10-20 years premature to being a viable MLB location.

Omaha Royals Park Confirmed for Papillon, NE

kings33 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:09:40 +0000

Omaha Royals

Rosenblatt Stadium, home of the College World Series since the 1950′s has now formall lost it’s last tenant. KTIV.com reports that the new 6,000 seat park will be built in Sarpy County, along 12th street and highway 370. The new park should be open for the 2011 season, and will be built with $26 million in taxpayer monies and promised Royals revenues.

Additionally a new Omaha baseball stadium is being built for the College World Series, with a capacity above 24,000. the CWS park will cost in excess of $120 million, and will be the home of the College World Series for the next 25 years. What they’ll use it for the other 47 weeks of the year has not yet been disclosed.

BREAKING NEWS: Omaha new park announcement

kings33 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:11:32 +0000

Plans are being finalized for a new ballpark for the Omaha Royals, in Sarpy County Nebraska. the new ballpark will cost approximately $25 million, and be located on farmland near 126th Street and Highway 370, about 4 miles south of Interstate 80 in the small town of Papillon, NE.