4 hours ago, tray said:

What did this billionaire do at the trade deadline to fund (in his way to borrow/finance) acquisition of two pitchers at the trade deadline to help this team?

This is ALL about the billionaire. Watch how much it costs to get to the train yard, buy tickets and concessions.

Ishbia isn’t the controlling owner you fucking lunatic.

48 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Ishbia isn’t the controlling owner you fucking lunatic.

You don't know anything about the issues. Pure vengeance.

It's telling that Ishbia did not seek community or fan input until long after Ishbia made the decisions and gone far down the road with his plan. So now what is the community meeting about? A taller fence between the Armor Park building and the rail yard ? Well OK, I noticed 87 million of the RR loan supposedly dedicated to "viaducts" in Bridgeport/Armor Park. That seems pretty light considering the poor condition of railroad bridges across the streets leading from the North to 35th street and beyond, and the storm sewers and streets in the viaducts.

Moving forward, what is Ishbia's plan, if any, to deal with Rate Field and to compensate the ISFA for demolishing it ?

At the end of the day, this is a move to convert public assets into private ones. The fans will pay the price for years to come.

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4 hours ago, nrockway said:

For some unknown reason, liberals now hate zoning and love letting real estate developers do whatever they want, thinking it's like a 'progressive' point of view. Reagan and friends did a number on people's brains.

Boneheads like you will find any reason to complain about a development. You're never going to make everybody happy. They're replacing an industrial property with a similar industrial property. The pollution from it is literally a drop in the bucket compared to vehicular traffic from major streets.

It reminds me of the people that were furious about the Lincoln Yards development. The developers were remediating heavily contaminated former Final Steel + multiple other industrial properties and replacing it with commercial/residential, and possibly an entertainment venue, and people were bitching about it.

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1 hour ago, 77 Hitmen said:

But the Tampa City Council still has to vote on this, right? Since you live in the area, do you know if this is likely to pass the city council?

The word is it’s a done but……..

As it stands now, the earliest they would have a new stadium is probably 2031-32.

Would hardly call this whole thing "fast paced," except in comparison to the Bears maybe...