OT MLB to PDX: We're talking baseball to PDX (1 Viewer)

[SheedSoNasty]

Why in the fuck are we still talking about this?

Nobody is forcing you.

 

[tlongII]

Looks like the A's have agreed on a place to develop their ballpark in Vegas. The Tropicana property right off the strip as long as the public financing is approved. One domino down. Hopefully PDX is lined up for expansion.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37655278/a-reach-agreement-develop-las-vegas-site-stadium

Better be a Dome!

 

[tykendo]

Mike Barrett said the City of Portland is behind the efforts to bring MLB to Portland, where as previous leadership wasn't. Having a MLB team be the catalyst for development, and betterment of the metro area is a big step that will promote prosperity in the future. Coors Field in Denver is still the magnet for city changing development and prosperity almost 2 decades after it was built. And it isn't slowing down. That area pre Coors was not nice at all.

 

[tykendo]

Better be a Dome!

It will be, or games won't start till midnight.

 

[tykendo]

Portland's plan is a retractable Dome. Check out the Diamond Project renderings from one of the Best Sports Architecture firms in the world. Populous' design for PDX is off the chain nice.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Mike Barrett said the City of Portland is behind the efforts to bring MLB to Portland, where as previous leadership wasn't. Having a MLB team be the catalyst for development, and betterment of the metro area is a big step that will promote prosperity in the future. Coors Field in Denver is still the magnet for city changing development and prosperity almost 2 decades after it was built. And it isn't slowing down. That area pre Coors was not nice at all.

Also I bet the city is behind this even more now than ever. With how bad we been latley something like this could change the trajectory towards positivity for the city in a major way

 

[tykendo]

Also I bet the city is behind this even more now than ever. With how bad we been latley something like this could change the trajectory towards positivity for the city in a major way

Exactly! There's never been a better time.

 

[BBert]

That Dome by the river would have been sweet.

 

[tykendo]

And this place is beautiful in the summer. The retractable roof guaranty's no rain outs. Add the food carts all around, and an already good restaurant area, a big win all around. Traffic will always be a problem no matter where it's built because the area's freeway system is antiquated. But having those Max lines already there is a huge plus. The housing area around Lloyd Center is super nice. I deliver food in the area. Once the Albina Development gets going and the Blazers renovation is done, that area will pop with a new sense of identity . Add the MLB Stadium and it will be flat out amazing.

 

[tykendo]

That Dome by the river would have been sweet.

Infrastructure is apparently too expensive due to it being by the river.

 

[tykendo]

Go Portland Go!

 

[HailBlazers]

Metropolitan Tavern, top hotel Eastlund in the Lloyd district has great views of downtown (food too).

If they could get the stadium to do the same it would be awesome.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Metropolitan Tavern, top hotel Eastlund in the Lloyd district has great views of downtown (food too).

If they could get the stadium to do the same it would be awesome.

Then all they’d need is an owner and a fucking team

 

[AldoTrapani]

Then all they’d need is an owner and a fucking team

Damn your always cranky

 

[e_blazer]

Then all they’d need is an owner and a fucking team

Don’t get @SlyPokerDog ’s hopes up.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Damn your always cranky

Honesty is cranky?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Don’t get @SlyPokerDog ’s hopes up.

Couldn’t for the life of me figure out the punctuation. Bad brain day

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Better be a Dome!

DOME LILLARD!

 

[BBert]

Then all they’d need is an owner and a fucking team

When are the tryouts?

 

[Fairly-Hard]

When are the tryouts?

 

[BigGameDamian]

Why do we need an again thread?

 

[THE HCP]

Why do we need an again thread?

Time to hit the reboot button again C-3PO.

 

[julius]

Why do we need an again thread?

There are a few of us who really should avoid advising others on what they should or should not post on here.

You're in that wheelhouse buddy...

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Why do we need an again thread?

Swing and a miss...

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...-golf-course-also-in-play.html?outputType=amp

Portland mayor backs pitch to turn Lloyd Center into MLB ballpark; RedTail golf course also in play

 

[Shaboid]

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...-golf-course-also-in-play.html?outputType=amp

Portland mayor backs pitch to turn Lloyd Center into MLB ballpark; RedTail golf course also in play

Better turn 217 into a 10 lane.

 

[BassPlaya]

just felt in a poetic mood....

Take me out to the ballgame
Right through the homeless crowd.....
Right through the addicts and bums on crack,
I don't care if I never go back...

And it's toot..... toot, toot through a fine screen
and if they face plant it's a shame...
Cuz it's 1...arrest....and you're back out, at the old....ball...game!

(Honestly, I want baseball here bad. Where ever they can place it.)

 

[AldoTrapani]

Lloyd center has to be the obvious choice. I don’t even see why the owners of that building wouldn’t want to sell that thing tonight. Seems to me it’s an empty money pit..

 

[Phatguysrule]

Better turn 217 into a 10 lane.

And 84 as well.

 

[Shaboid]

Coming soon to a city near you: MLB expansion