I spy a baseball field.

What happened?

Tray was swallowed by a canal gator/imported croc?

Just joshin' with you.

I know they are just renderings and will more than likely not be what it actually looks like, but the small piece of the outside we can see looks cool as hell.

This is fucking amazing news! Love how proactive ishbia is being rather than begging politicians for taxpayer money

1 hour ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Is there a way to view this without having an X account? I can barely make out the images in the slides. If I zoom in on my browser, the images get blurry. Is there a baseball stadium in the renderings? Everyone else sounds excited, so I assume these look pretty good.

5 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

Is there a way to view this without having an X account? I can barely make out the images in the slides. If I zoom in on my browser, the images get blurry. Is there a baseball stadium in the renderings? Everyone else sounds excited, so I assume these look pretty good.

I'd post the full res images but i dont even think i can post 1 without going over attachment cap

From the renderings, it looks like the ballpark is still on the 78 site, and the Amtrak site has the ballpark village. Also looks like there's a pedestrian bridge that says "Welcome to the home of the Sox."

4 minutes ago, kba said:

From the renderings, it looks like the ballpark is still on the 78 site, and the Amtrak site has the ballpark village. Also looks like there's a pedestrian bridge that says "Welcome to the home of the Sox."

It says "Phase 1 land aligns with a realistic stadium footprint." Phase 1 land is the north end of the Amtrak yard, not the 78 side.

Edited Friday at 11:07 PM1 day by DoUEvenShift

6 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

It says "Phase 1 land aligns with a realistic stadium footprint." Phase 1 land is the north end of the Amtrak yard, not the 78 side.

You're right, but how does that match the renderings? If that's the St. Charles Air Line bridge in the background of the top drawing, we have to looking south from the west side of the river, and the ballpark is on the other side.

1 hour ago, 77 Hitmen said:

Is there a way to view this without having an X account? I can barely make out the images in the slides. If I zoom in on my browser, the images get blurry. Is there a baseball stadium in the renderings? Everyone else sounds excited, so I assume these look pretty good.

Was told this might be leaking soon. Don’t worry, there will be parking

2 minutes ago, fathom said:

Was told this might be leaking soon. Don’t worry, there will be parking

Ingress/egress? Dirt clods on highways? Unprecedented environmental devastation on a scale out of only a Stephen King or Cormac McCarthy novel?

Edited yesterday at 12:07 AM1 day by caulfield12

This is so cool, especially when the Bears are probably leaving the city core. If the Sox pull this off they will create something special in that neighorhood. I feel for the old neighborhood but from my half a dozen or so trips to the Cell it never really stood out. I just remember a lot of parking lots, some residential and some fairly low density commercial otherwise and the stadium was just sorta dumped into it almost.

16 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

The bottom rendering looks a bit like old photos of the outside of Comiskey Park.

3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

I spy a baseball field.

I don't spy surface lots. Tell Ishbia to stop this pursuit!

Guys I see nothing but private equity and I’m disgusted

9 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Guys I see nothing but private equity and I’m disgusted

The Chicagoland taxpayer:

Does this qualify as North Bridgeport? Asking for a... ummmm... just asking.

51 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

This is so cool, especially when the Bears are probably leaving the city core. If the Sox pull this off they will create something special in that neighorhood. I feel for the old neighborhood but from my half a dozen or so trips to the Cell it never really stood out. I just remember a lot of parking lots, some residential and some fairly low density commercial otherwise and the stadium was just sorta dumped into it almost.

Where’s my credit :)

I loath the prospect of the White Sox moving to the South Loop and abandoning their historic home in Armor Park at the whim of a Billionaire, but hey, I will be long gone when that happens so I should not care.

Anyway, as a traditionalist (for example, I despise the proposed Trump Arch which I may live to see) I hope that a lot more thought goes into the design than that which went into Rate Field, or the laughable renderings that Related Development came up with. At least the AI generated rendering from Shore includes a more traditional White Sox stadium.

"From the renderings, it looks like the ballpark is still on the 78 site, and the Amtrak site has the ballpark village. Also looks like there's a pedestrian bridge that says "Welcome to the home of the Sox."

Yes, that looks to be the St. Charles Air Line Bridge, a bascule bridge with a big counterweight that is on the Amtrak site. The plan (walking over that bridge to get to the park) doesn't do anything for me, but whatever. And I am not sure what "ballpark village" means, but it likely is a commercialized office/retail zone with parking garages. Forget the tailgating /sprawling picnic/ grilling/ beer coolers.

Cue Warren Zevon's "Night time in the switching yard."

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by tray

15 hours ago, kba said:

From the renderings, it looks like the ballpark is still on the 78 site, and the Amtrak site has the ballpark village. Also looks like there's a pedestrian bridge that says "Welcome to the home of the Sox."

15 hours ago, DoUEvenShift said:

It says "Phase 1 land aligns with a realistic stadium footprint." Phase 1 land is the north end of the Amtrak yard, not the 78 side.

15 hours ago, kba said:

You're right, but how does that match the renderings? If that's the St. Charles Air Line bridge in the background of the top drawing, we have to looking south from the west side of the river, and the ballpark is on the other side.

It'll be very interesting to get more details on where the proposed ballpark would actually sit on either the 78 or the Amtrak land. The renderings look great, but they're a bit confusing to me about the orientation of everything.

That pedestrian bridge in the 2nd rendering looks it's actually a part of the St. Charles Air Line bridge. If I'm not mistaken, there are two bridge structures there. So, perhaps the plan would be to remodel the northern structure into a ped bridge. Any pedestrian bridge connecting the Amtrak site to the 78 would have to be a functioning drawbridge to allow boat traffic to pass through along the river.

Edited 13 hours ago13 hr by 77 Hitmen

My infatuation with Justin Ishbia is growing.

Sox on 35th has an article posted now on this latest news. It includes images of each of the presentation slides that were posted on "X" by CHGO Sports.

Sox On 35th

New Details Emerge About Justin Ishbia's 14th Street Rail...

New details emerged on Friday about White Sox minority owner Justin Ishbia's acquisition of Amtrak's 14th Street Yard.

6 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said:

It'll be very interesting to get more details on where the proposed ballpark would actually sit on either the 78 or the Amtrak land. The renderings look great, but they're a bit confusing to me about the orientation of everything.

• That pedestrian bridge in the 2nd rendering looks it's actually a part of the St. Charles Air Line bridge. If I'm not mistaken, there are two bridge structures there. So, perhaps the plan would be to remodel the northern structure into a ped bridge. Any pedestrian bridge connecting the Amtrak site to the 78 would have to be a functioning drawbridge to allow boat traffic to pass through along the river.

This is my guess based on everything I've seen. I know there's text that says 'Phase 1 is the ballpark' but that contradicts the renderings. Pure speculation on my part, just piecing things together:

• #1 - The entertainment district: Bars, restaurants, retail, a riverwalk, and parking

• Silver line - This would be the primary walking route from Roosevelt to the ballpark: The Riverwalk leading to the bridge.

• Yellow line - Cars would enter via 18th & Canal, keeping traffic coming from 90/94 west of the river and cutting down on some of the Roosevelt congestion concerns. Rideshare drop off could be down there, too.

• Red line - Bridge to the Fire stadium (the most speculative/made up thing here. I don't even know if it's possible, I'm no engineer)

• #2 - Phase 2 must be Ishbia's Northwestern Medical project I've seen mentioned a few times