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  1. Flood Zone
    MLB will just squeeze out a few more million in exchange for saying “Fine.”
  2. Flood Zone
    The terms of the Rays' lease at the Trop site are tough. It's a 30-year lease ('98 through '27), and its original terms did not even permit negotiations with a locality other than Pinellas County. Back on topic, Mayor Stoney gave an interview last week where he said lots of stuff is going on behind the scenes/about to be revealed (your mileage may vary), and he does not foresee the Squirrels leaving. I guess we should point that out, too.
  3. Flood Zone
    Used to live down the street from the Chalet. Always found the design fascinating, but in my experience you either had 23 year old dudes drinking Ice House or 65 year old ladies throwing cats at you and not much in between.
  4. Flood Zone
    Warning: Feel-good RVA story upcoming -- My family and I did the Monument Avenue 10K on Saturday. Probably the 10th time my wife and I have done it, but the first time with both of our kids. Half of us ran, and half of us walked as our younger kid is still too young to run for much more than a mile sustained. All of this is to say we had a grand time. This may be the jewel of our fair city. Tons of people from various backgrounds coming together for a common goal, having fun, cheering each other on - it can't be beat. Participation isn't quite up to pre-pandemic levels, I'd say, but it was still really well attended and the crowds along Monument were as enthusiastic as ever.
  5. Flood Zone
    I missed this before, but I didn't include Vegas because the A's going there is inevitable - as this morning's news shows.
  6. Flood Zone
    Born. Memories go from late 70s.
  7. Flood Zone
    @I miss RVAMid-70s
  8. Flood Zone
    @wrldcoupe4Agreed on all points. This place kinda sucked to grow up in … well, however many years ago that was. Now, it’s pretty awesome.
  9. Flood Zone
    (1) The problem isn't really market size, even when considered as a combination with Hampton Roads. I mean, it is market size, but the more immediate death knell would be TV rights. The O's and the Nats are STILL litigating over the latter's junior share of MASN money that was due over a decade ago. (We're part of that TV rights area, and so is Hampton Roads, and so is Raleigh.) MLB wouldn't touch that and further divide it for a long time, at least until the O's can't maintain MASN any longer. The age of regional sports network money is dying, which is why baseball has gone all-in on the sports book money. I think we'll eventually see an NBA team in Virginia Beach, assuming an area is over built there, of course. Outside shot of an NFL team one day. I'd support the former, and, until hearing news that Snyder has reached an agreement to sell today, I would've considered the latter. (2) SLC's bid would be a longshot. And they're in a CSA that totals 2.7 million, 22nd in the country. Not great, but not terrible; it wouldn't be the worst TV market in MLB. Above caveat about RSNs applies. Nashville and Portland are stronger expansion candidates, with years of lobbying at the local and state levels.
  10. Flood Zone
    RBS has an article up this morning that touches on this subject, in part.
  11. Flood Zone
    This is a Triple-A size market, and the Squirrels have finished 1st or 2nd in the Eastern League in attendance, despite playing in a purported albatross of a ballpark (and the Squirrels having been essentially promised a new one for over a decade now). Bluster notwithstanding, it's extremely unlikely they're going anywhere, and I'm sure MLB will be happy to extort a bit more money in return for any reasonable delay. Remember, 2025 is an edict - not any kind of existential marker. None of this should be interpreted as any kind of endorsement for lollygagging, were that to be what is happening here.
  12. Flood Zone
    Exactly. Unlike that apartment complex behind the Midlo Walmart that RBS reported on today, this isn't knocking down trees or the sake of knocking down trees (among other things).
  13. Flood Zone
    Certainly. But where is the developer in all this?
  14. Flood Zone
    No. And we don't know for a fact that things have been reduced to a standstill -- only that DiBella has basically described it that way. The article states that requests for comment by the developer, city officials, and minor league baseball were not returned. And the article states -- fairly carefully, it would seem -- that no ballpark design has been released "at least to the public." So, there may be more to the story than a complete dereliction of duty -- again, baseball owners can be incredibly bellicose and childish when it comes to ballpark stuff -- but on the surface there's nothing good here.
  15. Flood Zone
    OK, now it's time to get concerned, at least a little bit. Lou DiBella has returned to bellicose mode in an article just published in the Times-Dispatch. He's bemoaning no progress over the last several months. says he's not confident the park can get done per MLB's deadline, and threatens there might not be baseball in Richmond on Opening Day 2026. This is all Baseball Owner Posturing 101, but I'll acknowledge I may have had too much faith things were progressing behind the scenes (not that I lacked reason to believe that, given Squirrels management had positive comments in an article published a couple months ago).
  16. Flood Zone
    Chesterfield is still tapping into its western reaches, while Henrico has kind of hit bottom on those, which I suppose means the big stuff planned for the junction of 64/295 on the other side of the county makes sense.
  17. Flood Zone
    Such gravity is why we teach kids the concept of bare hand supporting the gloved hand on a fly ball!
  18. Flood Zone
    I don't do the politics, either, but I'm just adding that to some extent we're at the mercy of world economic conditions, too.
  19. Flood Zone
    They do that every March.
  20. Flood Zone
    According to the article, Durham got hit with a $10 million fee and Reading twice that.
  21. Flood Zone
    Exactly. That's what I was referring to rather inartfully upthread: VCU has said the new 314,000-square-foot facility is envisioned for the 3-acre site at 500 N. 10th St., which until recently had been planned for a private development with VCU Health signed on as a master tenant. That project, valued at $325 million, effectively died last month, when the City of Richmond took back the property after finding the private developer, Capital City Partners, in default of the terms of the development agreement. That 2021 agreement had called for a 20-story tower and three-building complex totaling 240,000 square feet of office space, 150,000 of which was to be used by VCU Health to support its nearby Children’s Hospital Pavilion and Adult Outpatient Pavilion.
  22. Flood Zone
    Here's hoping the sketch of the new design does not include a swarm of UFOs in the top right corner.
  23. Flood Zone
    @Brent114 Hard to tell, but the progression of the word "that" in the fourth and fifth paragraphs seems to suggest 100k more square feet than the 20-story concept. But, again, hard for me to tell -- the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
  24. Flood Zone
    Seems from the TV report that it's part of a larger development with the intention of competing with other parts of the oceanfront area. I think your take is correct. The problem I see with the planned surf park here is the location., but maybe that's just me.
  25. Flood Zone
    Yes. Reading between the lines -- and it's been since this morning that I read the article, so forgive me if I've forgotten the details -- this does not seem like a crushing development. Isn't the reality that the developer said, well, we will look into the comments but any change would significantly alter the project; so, they'll come back and say, sorry, we tried, and, given the planning commission staff has already said OK, the planning commission itself will likely say OK, too?
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