LHM group trying to bring MLB to Utah

[Gameface]

The house I grew up in is circled in red on the south side of I-80, X marks the spot of the proposed field.

 

[LogGrad98]

The house I grew up in is circled in red on the south side of I-80, X marks the spot of the proposed field.

It's good you didn't forget that you lived by Alzheimer's Park. Seems that place would be confusing.

 

[Gameface]

It's good you didn't forget that you lived by Alzheimer's Park. Seems that place would be confusing.

Well to be fair, it wasn't there when I was a kid. That was a mini-BMX track when lived there. There was no Jordan River Parkway Trail, either. I mean there was a trail, but it was dirt. Homeless people lived under the I-80 overpass crossing the river.

 

[Gameface]

Anyway, I'm not a baseball fan, but had that stadium been there when I was a kid I most likely would be and I would have grown up in a nicer neighborhood (as good as it was despite challenges). That's a good place for a baseball stadium. Building a stadium there will paradoxically make that a better place to put a stadium, and a better place for restaurants, and a better place for retail shops. Next thing you know you've got the residents complaining that their property tax has gone up too mush because property values have skyrocketed so they can't afford their retirement home anymore. They'll move out and new affordable high-density housing will replace the blight and then Sugar House will have to eat *** because there will be a new hip area all the gay people want to live.

It's a ****** area because there is no investment and no development. the house I circled, the one I grew up in, is about 130 years old today. It's basically a ****ing pioneer house. If anyone noticed, you pass the Fisher Mansion on the journey from my childhood home to the proposed stadium. This wasn't always a ****** neighborhood. It isn't condemned to always be a ****** neighborhood.

West Side Represent!

 

[infection]

Well to be fair, it wasn't there when I was a kid.

You don’t *remember* it being there as a kid.

 

[David Stern]

What's wrong with throwing a ****ing bone to an underserved neighborhood? Like I said, that's where I grew up. You all hate it for some kind of reason but I absolutely love that neighborhood and that area. Easy access, just as easy as getting to the Delta Center. No one is going to go all NIMBY on the project as it's replacing an industrial area. I could literally be standing at home plate at that thing in less than a 5 min walk from the house I grew up in. My dad worked at Mountain Fuel (later Questar and now Dominion) right there and he'd walk to work every day.

People complained about the Utah Beer Festival being held at the Utah State Fairpark despite that being the best venue they had ever had for that event. The one downtown next to The Leonardo was terrible. People just hate Glendale, Poplar Grove, Rose Park without knowing anything about it and that real people live there and/or grew up there.

If they build an MLB stadium anywhere else in Utah now I just want to burn it to the ground and tag it all over with "WEST SIDE"

I can appreciate your connection to the area, but throwing a bone to an underserved area isn’t a good reason to build a major stadium somewhere. I just think there are other sites that would be better, obviously LHM disagrees though

 

[Ron Mexico]

I can appreciate your connection to the area, but throwing a bone to an underserved area isn’t a good reason to build a major stadium somewhere. I just think there are other sites that would be better, obviously LHM disagrees though

What other areas would be better? This area is cheap and areas that could be developed without tearing a ton down. Its very close to downtown and really close to the airport, it is supposed to be getting good public transportation that is already needed in the area. SLC needs to grow this direction anyways and it would improve the area.

 

[Gameface]

What other areas would be better? This area is cheap and areas that could be developed without tearing a ton down. Its very close to downtown and really close to the airport, it is supposed to be getting good public transportation that is already needed in the area. SLC needs to grow this direction anyways and it would improve the area.

Yeah, this.

There isn't going to be any NIMBY BS getting this done. It is easy access. It splits the difference between Ogden and Provo. You go there and park in a relatively secure parking lot (I imagine they'll have security during games), go into an awesome new stadium, watch a game, go home. Yeah, I can see how doing that in Riverton would make it so much better. I mean after you compromise 1001 times with the neighbors on where the exit to the parking lot will be and if the sound wall should be 50ft high or 100ft high.

 

[bigb]

Apparently the A’s have struck some deal with Vegas to get a stadium built. Next, we need to get the stadium figured out in Tampa, and then MLB will look at expansion. Does a team in Vegas help or hurt Salt Lake’s chance at a team? That’s pretty damn close.

 

[infection]

Apparently the A’s have struck some deal with Vegas to get a stadium built. Next, we need to get the stadium figured out in Tampa, and then MLB will look at expansion. Does a team in Vegas help or hurt Salt Lake’s chance at a team? That’s pretty damn close.

I certainly think it's close, but at least the way KSL is spinning it is that the league will look to expand with a team in the west and a team in the east, and that Vegas would have gotten a team before us, so that would leave it between us and Portland in the west. I think in some sense you could argue that Vegas is too close to this market, but then on the other hand I don't know that things like the Golden Knights or Raiders have really made any ground here.

 

[slc]

If this is what the LHM group is thinking a stadium for MLB would have to be a 50,000 plus seating field plus sufficient parking
That would be a 500 mil plus type expense

 

[David Stern]

What other areas would be better? This area is cheap and areas that could be developed without tearing a ton down. Its very close to downtown and really close to the airport, it is supposed to be getting good public transportation that is already needed in the area. SLC needs to grow this direction anyways and it would improve the area.

My experience going to pro baseball games has been with coworkers in the city that my company is headquartered - we go to a game and spend the whole day downtown near the stadium. I think having a strong area surrounding a stadium is a must and adds to the experience during the time of year where people want to be outside. The accessibility of that site is its greatest strength - but like another poster stated, it would be people coming in and out of that area just to watch a game without much lingering. I doubt that they’ll ever develop the surrounding area enough to allow for that. I personally think the prison site in Draper would be the best - 600 acres of mixed housing, retail, and commercial space that focuses on green space and such.