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Post by oldbeav on Jan 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -8
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Post by gnawitall on Jan 30, 2024 16:03:32 GMT -8
Would be fun. Incredible art work but I'd hope they'd build a structure that could close for bad weather.
I've thought it would be awesome to leave a gap in a stadium where the sun could hit all areas of grass; mariners have to set up grow lights in parts of theirs.
Maybe have half the stadium open to the sun and the other half able to rotate behind it on nice days and opposite it on rainy days.
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Post by Angus on Jan 30, 2024 16:07:35 GMT -8
Always wondered by Portand didn't get more serious MLB interest. Really hope this happens. They would certainly count me in a few games a year ... and living in Albany, out of Portland metro.
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Post by rgeorge on Jan 30, 2024 16:13:24 GMT -8
I can't imagine that area hosting 20-30k plus.
The "redtail" property is City of PDX owned, annexed to Beaverton. It's in a cluster eff area already. How in the world are they going to feed a stadium off 217 and those other surrounding smaller roads?
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Post by EmeraldEmpire on Jan 30, 2024 16:50:51 GMT -8
I can't imagine that area hosting 20-30k plus. The "redtail" property is City of PDX owned, annexed to Beaverton. It's in a cluster eff area already. How in the world are they going to feed a stadium off 217 and those other surrounding smaller roads? Yeah I heard Canzano talking about it on the radio earlier and that was also one of my first thoughts with the traffic situation ... and also the houses that surround that golf course I am sure the neighbors would raise holy hell having a big loud stadium replacing that course. |
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Post by beaverboilermaker on Jan 30, 2024 17:26:27 GMT -8
What the Portland metro area and it’s people could use:
Redevelopment of a dilapidated, underused and outdated mall in the middle of the City with highway and transit infrastructure already in place. Also walkable to hotels, restaurants and other entertainment venues. Lloyd Center fits the bill.
What the Portland metro area and it’s people do not need:
Destruction of public open space that serves as recreational parkland, wetland, flood plain, urban wildlife refuge and buffer between heavy commercial areas and residential homes.
When I want to watch baseball in the suburbs, I go to Corvallis!
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 30, 2024 17:42:01 GMT -8
Oh, this again. Yawn….
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Post by Judge Smails on Jan 30, 2024 17:48:06 GMT -8
What the Portland metro area and it’s people could use: Redevelopment of a dilapidated, underused and outdated mall in the middle of the City with highway and transit infrastructure already in place. Also walkable to hotels, restaurants and other entertainment venues. Lloyd Center fits the bill. What the Portland metro area and it’s people do not need: Destruction of public open space that serves as recreational parkland, wetland, flood plain, urban wildlife refuge and buffer between heavy commercial areas and residential homes. When I want to watch baseball in the suburbs, I go to Corvallis! Lloyd Center ain’t happening. Too small to develop an entertainment district around it and there are two many existing leases in place. Wetland and urban wlidlife refuge? Do you know how many chemicals they use to run a golf course. Your 3 eyed blue heron will just have to find a new home. |
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Post by bigorangebeaver on Jan 30, 2024 18:20:04 GMT -8
Kinda where I am at. Portland isn't going to get an MLB team. There, I said it. |
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Post by ag87 on Jan 30, 2024 19:18:28 GMT -8
Traffic on the 217 corridor - yikes. When I was still working in Portland (1998+/-), there was a developer from Abu Dhabi who started buying up parcels in a triangle bordered by 217, Oak Street and Hall Blvd. He had major plans. I know there was 500-foot tall office tower and lots of high density housing. He was negotiating with Tri-Met and said he would commit $100M to a light-rail line from Beaverton Center to Tualatin. Those meetings were a couple of levels over my head but I know he put the project on the back burner and developed the mixed use project in Vancouver between 6th, 8th, Columbia and Washington Streets. Anyway, the preliminary traffic studies 26 years ago were scary horrible, therefore the proposed light rail solution.
It's possible he still holds the options on properties near Washington Square. If there is an MLB park at the existing Progress Downs Golf Course, it will have to be served by rail. 217 will never by four lanes in each direction and Portland is done building freeways.
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Post by rob85 on Jan 30, 2024 19:25:30 GMT -8
Sister and family used to live in Beaverton, west of 217, between Allen and Denney. Know the area well. Anyone who has driven through there should have one reaction to the idea of an MLB stadium in the area: "Holy Mother of God, no."
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 30, 2024 19:27:18 GMT -8
IMO they really missed the boat by not buying the Zidell property under the Marquam Bridge on the River. Urban park with views of downtown, the Willamette River, the bridges, and Mt Hood and Mt St Helens for TV broadcasts. What’s interesting or scenic about Beaverton? Yuck
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jan 30, 2024 20:41:08 GMT -8
Tear down the Coliseum. Built it there, like what was supposed to happen when they gave PGE Park to the Timbers.
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 30, 2024 21:12:50 GMT -8
Tear down the Coliseum. Built it there, like what was supposed to happen when they gave PGE Park to the Timbers. No good reason not to. Move the Memorial to a more visible place in the plaza. Why not? |
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Post by kersting13 on Jan 30, 2024 22:14:24 GMT -8
Tear down the Coliseum. Built it there, like what was supposed to happen when they gave PGE Park to the Timbers.
If you're going outside of the central city area, go to Delta Park, not Tigard. |
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