Arlington Heights making stadium pitch to White Sox?

[greg775]

On 6/12/2025 at 4:12 PM, WBWSF said:

The Kansas  offer is the better of the 2 offers. The proposed Kansas stadiums are 16 miles from the present stadiums in Kansas City. I would think both teams will take the Kansas offer.

The teams aren't going to leave Missouri. If one of them was smart they'd build a new stadium by the racetrack in KCK. But they won't leave Missouri.

[caulfield12]

1 hour ago, DoUEvenShift said:

Imagine the concession revenue when 50-60% of your population doesn't drink. You'd have to be crazy to move a team there. 

Utah Jazz? 

Aren't the profit margins on sodas and bottled water even higher? 

It would be interesting to see how they compensate for that (religious/consumption differences)...ice cream and milkshakes are popular, for example? 

[caulfield12]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45392359/2025-mlb-ballpark-village-truist-park-battery-atlanta-future-business-cities-build

"Financially, it's easy to see the impact of The Battery through the prism of the annual franchise valuations published by Forbes. At the time the Braves announced their move, the most recent set of valuations ranked the Braves 15th across MLB. The Braves now rank eighth, at an estimated $3 billion. Their 250% increase in valuation since the announcement is the fourth highest during that span, behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros.

While it is hard not to be impressed by the sheer audacity of what the Braves had done, with the aid of public funds that remain a source of contention in Cobb County and beyond, it's worth revisiting Manfred's 2017 comments on a new model for teams. Would such projects -- a stadium and a neighborhood to go with it, created concurrently, become baseball's new ballpark standard?"

Edited June 16 by caulfield12