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Natebishop3 said:
So seriously though, what's the next step?
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The land has a prospective deal in place. Now they have some hurdles to get over. They need to deal with the city for things like zoning which needs to be replaced to keep the numbers in order. If you use land zoned for certain uses in a different manner you must replace that land somewhere else. Then there is a stadium to build. It takes essentially a year to work out the bidding and pre job process. Then the contracts are awarded. When that happens there will be all sorts of logistical issues they need to take care of.

That is for starters.
 
hoopsjock said:
If they take the full 85 acres of T1 and T2 then I think they would have to find 85 acres of land to rezone as industrial since they are rezoning that land to entertainment. It might not have to be the full 85 acres but something along those lines.

There is a bunch of environmental stuff they have to clear.

Then there is the transportation issues. They have to get some sort of mass transit approved to that area, which would most likely be another Max route. The whole area's roads will need to be upgraded to accommodate all the traffic flowing to that area on game nights. As of right now there is no way that area could support 30,000 people going there for a game.
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Yep the zoning is pretty much the first biggest issue. But that really isn't an issue beings pretty much everyone on the city council and the mayor are on board with the project.
 
julius said:
I actually like the 59ers, because it does have a bit of history in its name. I think someone has suggested Portland Chinook, and in a way I like that as an option.

They could go the route of the NFL team in Houston and call them selves the "Portland Oregonians".

but that'd be lame. hehe
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I'm down with any of the following I've heard the past several weeks:
Oregon Chinook
Oregon Steelhead
Oregon Douglas Fir
 
Just opened an email from a contractor asking me to start the beginning elements of a Pre-Job. This includes things like status of the Hitachi cranes and the river access. Very beginning looks. That site would use barges to move most of the materials. This opens up a bunch of fabrication options.
 
yuyuza1 said:
I actually like Pathfinders. Would be the second team in Portland with an SUV name.
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I was going with a name in a similar mindset of the Trail Blazers. I do like it, but it doesn't seem to sound super big league to me. :/

Glad I'm not the one who has to decide on a name.
 
yuyuza1 said:
I actually like Pathfinders. Would be the second team in Portland with an SUV name.
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That should be two words though.

Path Finders.

Otherwise, it's a car.

Looking at it as two words, it's pretty bad, LOL.

:cheers:
 
kjironman1 said:
Just opened an email from a contractor asking me to start the beginning elements of a Pre-Job. This includes things like status of the Hitachi cranes and the river access. Very beginning looks. That site would use barges to move most of the materials. This opens up a bunch of fabrication options.
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If you are going to buy a river terminal, may as well use it, right?
 
No singular names. Heat/Magic/Thunder/Jazz/etc etc.

just awful.
 
tiredhunter said:
If you are going to buy a river terminal, may as well use it, right?
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It's the whole reason they chose that site as a preferred spot. Logistics in a project that size can make or break you. But it looks as though they might have to upgrade the Hitachi's and fix some of the dock area. Then expand some of the rail issues.
 
BonesJones said:
And whys that? The obsession over plurality by some is so strange to me.
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I wonder if it's an age thing? I'm old as hell, and grew up with predominantly plural names. Excluding Sox, which is basically plural, Jazz was about the only one around in the major sports.

Younger people grew up with Avalanche, Lightning, Heat, Magic, Thunder, etc.

I always associate it with minor league or WNBA. 7 of the 12 WNBA teams are non plural
 
Mediocre Man said:
I wonder if it's an age thing? I'm old as hell, and grew up with predominantly plural names. Excluding Sox, which is basically plural, Jazz was about the only one around in the major sports.

Younger people grew up with Avalanche, Lightning, Heat, Magic, Thunder, etc.

I always associate it with minor league or WNBA. 7 of the 12 WNBA teams are non plural
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Not age. I'm not THAT old at 30.

It just sounds stupid while hearing the Jazz announcers call their players "Jazz men." WTF is that? Or how about "the Thunder look exhausted." It's a singular noun to describe a group of people. As I was saying... awful.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Not age. I'm not THAT old at 30.

It just sounds stupid while hearing the Jazz announcers call their players "Jazz men." WTF is that? Or how about "the Thunder look exhausted." It's a singular noun to describe a group of people. As I was saying... awful.
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I want my team to be a tangible thing rather than a concept. The worst are in college--the Syracuse Orange and the Stanford Cardinal. The Alabama Crimson Tide bothers me too, especially since they inexplicably have an elephant mascot. Are they just the University of the GOP?
 
I wonder if the old curmudgeons of baseball tradition would even allow the team to be called Rose City instead of Portland or Oregon?
 
hoopsjock said:
If they take the full 85 acres of T1 and T2 then I think they would have to find 85 acres of land to rezone as industrial since they are rezoning that land to entertainment. It might not have to be the full 85 acres but something along those lines.

There is a bunch of environmental stuff they have to clear.

Then there is the transportation issues. They have to get some sort of mass transit approved to that area, which would most likely be another Max route. The whole area's roads will need to be upgraded to accommodate all the traffic flowing to that area on game nights. As of right now there is no way that area could support 30,000 people going there for a game.
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They could supplement the Max and alleviate traffic by including a free Max ride with every ticket.
 
hoopsjock said:
I wonder if the old curmudgeons of baseball tradition would even allow the team to be called Rose City instead of Portland or Oregon?
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Didn't realize we curmudgeons had that kind of pull.

At first blush, it just feels minor league. And I don't really see the point. At least with Golden State, it's an effort to brand the team as representing more than just the Bay Area; Rose City is still just Portland. Yeah, it'd be unique, but aside from that...why? I mean, we could accomplish the same thing by being the "Willamette Valley Wolves" or something like that, and that would even be inclusive of Salem and Eugene.
 
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