OT MLB to PDX: We're talking baseball to PDX

The elevation = not high enough.

I remember all those businesses down along the water flooding back in the day.

 

The average major league baseball stadium is 2.5 acres.

The deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford is 4.5 acres.

Float it. No problem.

 

PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

is PNC flood-prone?
Not particularly. I’m assuming that in the design phase of building pnc park, since it’s on a river, they looked at the FEMA 50-100 year flood maps, did flood analysis where they model what areas would be flooded based on x amount of river raise, and built retaining walls (like those near the river walk/just flat out built high enough, and have sump pumps in the basements in case something gets in. Barring a dam busting upstream I don’t thing anything would happen to PNC.

 

Here is 1996 working on the seawall in downtown. It can happen.

 

Obviously 1996 would be part of the planning of a ball field near the river.

Also, in 1996 people came out in droves to help put up a barrier on waterfront park. We aren't going to just sit around watching it get flooded.

 

That was kind of the perfect scenario for flooding. Weeks of heavy snow followed by a week of very warm heavy rain.

 

Man I remember that! I volunteered and helped move all the monkeys to higher ground at the Washington Park Zoo!!!!!

 

These guys have more money than brains.

And they don't have enough money.

 

Build it and they will come bro!

 

This has now been on people's desks for over a month. I still have not seen even one reasonable rendering on building on that site. Everyone is saying it will be very expensive to work around the existing structures and dealing with the lack of usable space.
Starting to think they better start selling more hats...

 

So maybe just float the outfield bleachers? That seems doable.

 

I was mostly being sarcast... But it seems like we should probably be able to figure this out. There are countries building whole new islands. It doesn't seem outlandish that we would be able to figure out how to build a baseball stadium with a portion where there is currently a riverbank and a bit of river.

 

No question it can be done. They can just dam the Willamette river for that matter.
The question is Why?

 

Well, damming the Willamette probably wouldn't be necessary.

Is there a better location for a stadium? What would you suggest?

I guess, the answer to your question of "why", would be that it's easier or more attainable than other options.

I don't actually know if that's the case. But it seems like if that were the only option they could figure out how to build a stadium in that location without the price being so high that it would torpedo the whole idea.

But from your perspective (as somebody with some clear expertise in this) I am curious what alternatives would you suggest?